Vocabulary
A deceptive appearance or impression. (Chapter 10)
illusion
What gift does Chiron give to Percy before Percy's departure? (Chapter 10)
Magic pen.
Instead of hair, Medusa has what?
Snakes
Medusa's nickname
Aunt Em
Feeling or showing caution about possible dangers or problems. (Chapter 10)
wary
Who enters the bus that Percy and his friends are on? (Chapter 10)
The Furies
Burgers.
The one who cursed Medusa.
Athena
A feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause. (Chapter 10)
melancholy
Why is Percy unable to use Luke's gift? (Chapter 10)
'I picked up the flying shoes and had a sudden bad feeling. I looked at Chiron. "I won't be able to use these, will I?"
He shook his head. "Luke meant well, Percy. But taking to the air ... that would not be wise for you."
He got off the ground okay, but then fell over sideways so his backpack dragged through the grass. The winged shoes kept bucking up and down like tiny broncos.'
What are some clues in the chapter that indicated that Percy and his friends should not have gone into the emporium?
"Flanking the entrance, as advertised, were two cement garden gnomes, ugly bearded little runts, smiling and waving, as if they were about to get their picture taken."
"The front lot was a forest of statues: cement animals, cement children, even a cement satyr playing the pipes, which gave Grover the creeps."
Mrs. Dodds
Make an emotional appeal. (Chapter 11)
pleaded
In detail, describe the Kindly Ones that Percy encounters on the bus. How do Percy and his friends escape?
"An old lady had just boarded the bus. She wore a crumpled velvet dress, lace gloves, and a shapeless orange-knit hat that shadowed her face, and she carried a big paisley purse. When she tilted her head up, her black eyes glittered, and my heart skipped a beat."
"Behind her came two more old ladies: one in a green hat, one in a purple hat. Otherwise they looked exactly like Mrs. Dodds—same gnarled hands, paisley handbags, wrinkled velvet dresses. "
"Their faces were still the same—I guess those couldn't get any uglier— but their bodies had shriveled into leathery brown hag bodies with bat's wings and hands and feet like gargoyle claws. Their handbags had turned into fiery whips."
How do Percy and his friends escape from Medusa?
"Annabeth grabbed a green gazing ball from a nearby pedestal. "A polished shield would be better." She studied the sphere critically. "The convexity will cause some distortion.'
Grover was coming in for another turn at bat, but this time he flew a little too low. Medusa grabbed the stick and pulled him off course. He tumbled through the air and crashed into the arms of a stone grizzly bear with a painful "Ummphh!"
The one who drives Percy and his friends to the city and kept an eye on them.
Argus
acting or done without forethought. (Chapter 11)
impulsive
Why does Percy not care about retrieving Zeus's lightning bolt?
"The truth was, I didn't care about retrieving Zeus's lightning bolt, or saving the world, or even helping my father out of trouble. The more I thought about it, I resented Poseidon for never visiting me, never helping my mom, never even sending a lousy child-support check. He'd only claimed me because he needed a job done.
All I cared about was my mom. Hades had taken her unfairly, and Hades was going to give her back."
"How did Medusa die in the myth?
But I couldn't think. Something told me that in the myth Medusa had been asleep when she was attacked by my namesake, Perseus. She wasn't anywhere near asleep now. If she wanted, she could take those talons right now and rake open my face.
"The Gray-Eyed One did this to me, Percy," Medusa said, and she didn't sound anything like a monster. Her voice invited me to look up, to sympathize with a poor old grandmother. "Annabeth's mother, the cursed Athena, turned me from a beautiful woman into this."
Rick Riordan