The Hero Cycle
Percy and Friends
Monsters and Gods
Dreams
Name that Quotation
100
Who are Percy's helpers as he departs into the Special World? (name the two most important)
Annabeth and Grover
100
If Grover gets his searchers license, who will he search for?
Pan
100
Which God buys Percy a hamburger?
Ares
100
In Percy's first dream he sees an eagle and a horse fighting. Which gods do the eagle and the horse represent?
Zeus and Poseidon
100
"The grey-Eyed One did this to me, Percy. Annabeth's mother, the cursed Athena, turned me from a beautiful woman into this."
Medusa
200
How does Percy overcome his Trial with Auntie M (Medusa)?
He chops her head off. / He looks in a mirror to see her and then chops her head off.
200
Annabeth is very interested in the St. Louis Arch because she wants to be an _________________.
Architect
200
This magical item grants (gives) Hades the ability to become darkness and radiate fear so intense that it can drive a person insane or stop their heart.
The Helm of Darkness (pg 204)
200
During Percy's dream there is a voice that is trying to use Percy to do something. What does the voice try to do?
It tries to use Percy to pull itself out of the pit pg. 194
200
"He doesn't care about me. His wife - my stepmom - treated me like a freak.
Annabeth
300
What archetypal character does Chiron represent in the story?
The Mentor
300
When Percy, Annabeth, and Grover are eating at Aunty Em's, what makes a hissing noise?
The snakes in her hair
300
Why can't Percy fly to L.A.? Why do they have to make the journey overland?
They have to travel overland because the air is Zeus's domain and he could attack Percy
300
During his dream what did the voice from the pit say to Percy about the gods?
Don't trust them "they have misled you" pg 193
300
"Percy Jackson. That's right, Dan. Channel Twelve has learned that the boy who may have caused this explosion fits the description of a young man wanted by authorities fora serious New Jersey bus accident three days ago."
News Reporter
400
Besides the possibility of monsters, what is a fear that Percy faces by going up in the Arch?
Either claustrophobia (fear of confined spaces) or acrophobia (fear of heights)
400
Why does Annabeth say that Percy MUST kill Medusa. Why can't they just run away and leave Medusa alone?
Annabeth says that Percy must kill Medusa because if he doesn't she will turn more innocent people into statues (pg. 182)
400
Poseidon and Athena worked together to create this.
A chariot
400
Where did Percy find himself during his dream when they were camping?
at the edge of a chasm
400
"You have no faith. You do not trust the gods. I cannot blame you, little coward. Better you die now. The gods are faithless. The poison is in your heart."
Echidna
500
The St Louis Arch, the city of St. Louis, and the Mississippi river all help to symbolize what?
That Percy is at the Crisis stage of the hero cycle. (He is in the middle of his story and the middle of the U.S.A. - the arch looks like half of the hero cycle)
500
Spell the name of the river that Percy falls into. (This river is under the St. Louis Arch.
M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I river
500
Name the 3 animals that the Chimera is made of, and which parts of its body they make up.
lion head, goat body, snake (serpent) tail
500
Many writers use dreams in a story as ____________
foreshadowing
500
"I am impertinent!"
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