The Lightning Thief-ch.1-8

Why can't Percy get back at Nancy when she teases Grover?

• He was too scared

• He was already on probation

• Grover was handling it himself

• He had a crush on Nancy

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Which sentence best hints at the fact that there are big changes in store for Percy?

• "That was my first day at Camp Half-Blood."

• 
  "I didn't realize how exhausted I was until I collapsed on my borrowed sleeping bag."

• "We all headed down to the ampitheater where Apollo's cabin led a sing a long."

• 
  "I'd wish I'd known how briefly I would get to enjoy my new home."

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CCSS.RI.6.1

CCSS.RI.7.1

CCSS.RI.8.1

CCSS.RL.7.1

CCSS.RL.8.1

Why does Percy think the whole school is playing a trick on him?

• They always laugh when they see him

• They say that they don't know Mrs. Dodds & Mrs. Kerr has always been the math teacher

• They won't talk to him

• They all wore pink fuzzy slippers

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

Which line from the chapter best illustrates how Percy feels about himself?

• 
  “Being a half-blood is dangerous. It’s scary. Most of the time, it gets you killed in painful, nasty ways.”

• From her first day, Mrs. Dodds loved Nancy Bobofit and figured I was devil spawn.”

• “We thought that maybe if we [sat away from the others], everybody wouldn’t know we were from that school—the school for loser freaks who couldn’t make it elsewhere.”

• “You might be one of us. And once you know that, it’s only a matter of time before they sense it too, and they’ll come for you.”

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Which line from the chapter best illustrates the relationship between Percy and Mr. Brunner (ch. 1)?

• “Mr. Brunner was this middle-aged guy in a motorized wheelchair. He had thinning hair and a scruffy beard and a frayed tweed jacket, which always smelled like coffee.”

• “[Mr. Brunner] didn’t expect me to be as good; he expected me to be better.”

• 
  “[Mr. Brunner] was the only teacher whose class didn’t put me to sleep.”

• “It was kind of cool on tournament day, when [Mr. Brunner] dressed up in a suit of Roman armor and shouted: ‘What ho!” and challenged us, sword-point against chalk, to run to the board and name every Greek and Roman person who had ever lived . . .”

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

1. “I started feeling cranky and irritable most of the time.”

What word in this sentence best helps in understanding the meaning of irritable?

• feeling

• cranky

• most

• started

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CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RI.8.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RL.8.4

Why is Montauk special to Percy's mom?

• That's where she met Percy's dad

• That's where she can get away from Gabe

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  Its the only place she doesn't have to work hard

• Everyone loves the beach

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

What amazing discovery did Percy learn from Chiron?

• That his mother is really dead

• That Grover is really not his friend

• That the Greek gods are real

• That Mr. Brunner isn't a teacher

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CCSS.RI.11-12.9

CCSS.RI.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.11-12.9

CCSS.RL.9-10.9

CCSS.RL.K.6

What happened when Clarisse dragged Percy to the bathroom?

• She tried to give him a "swirly"

• The toilets exploded shooting water

• The showers went crazy

• All of these answers

As soon as Clarisse and her friends were out the door, what did Percy realize?

• what the bad smell was

• Clarisse had hands like iron

• Annabeth was pushed out the door

• He was sitting on the only dry spot in the bathroom

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6