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Vocabulary - Nouns
People, Places, Things
Vocabulary - Nouns
People, Places, Things
Paragraph 1: What are inhabitants?
a. tools you use when hunting
b. things you do a lot
c. people who live in a place
c. people who live in a place
Paragraph 2: When Uranus fled, what does that mean?
a. he drank a potion
b. he ran away
c. he got angry
b. he ran away
Paragraph 1: Mount Olympus was unusual. What does the word unusual mean?
a. very far away from everywhere else
b. different from everywhere else
c. higher up than everywhere else
b. different from everywhere else
Paragraph 6: Rhea missed her son terribly, so she brought him to Mount Olympus dressed as a royal servant.
Why did Rhea dress her son up like a servant?
Rhea dressed her son like a servant so he could go to Mount Olympus to be with her.
Paragraph 5 - What are deities?
a. gods and goddesses
b. grown children
c. special powers
a. gods and goddesses
Paragraph 3: When Cronos was afraid his children would overthrow him, what was he afraid they would do?
a. kick him out of power
b. run away from the village
c. throw a rock at him
a. kick him out of power
Paragraph 2: The Titans are mighty. What does mighty mean?
a. strong
b. foolish
c. old
a. strong
Paragraph 2: Cronos, the bravest of the bunch, decided that Uranus had ruled long enough and rose up against his father.
Why did Cronos rise up against his father?
Cronos rose up against his father because he thought his father had been in charge for a long time.
Paragraph 6: What is a goblet?
a. a scary creature
b. a fancy cup
c. a baby
b. a fancy cup
Paragraph 4: When Cronos demanded the baby, what did he do?
a. he insisted on having it
b. he hid it in a blanket.
c. he gave it many powers
a. he insisted on having it
Paragraph 6: Zeus was disguised as a servant. What does disguised mean?
a. doing something disgusting
b. dressed as a servant so he could hide
c. walking with a servant
b. dressed as a servant so he could hide
Paragraph 4: When Cronos demanded the newborn, she instead handed him a stone wrapped in a baby blanket.
Why did Rhea wrap a stone in a blanket?
Rhea wanted to disguise the stone as a baby to trick Cronos.
Paragraph 6: What is a potion?
a. a liquid that can heal you or poison you
b. something that makes your skin soft
c. something very old
a. a liquid that can heal you or poison you
Paragraph 5: When Zeus yearned to live among the other gods and goddesses, what did he do?
a. he hated living with them
b. he forgot about living with them
c. he really wanted to live with them
c. he really wanted to live with them
a. magical
b. tiny
c. boring
a. magical
Paragraph 1: The most unusual aspect of Mount Olympus was its inhabitants.
What made the inhabitants of Mount Olympus unusual?
The inhabitants of Mount Olympus were unusual because they were gods and goddesses!
Paragraph 8: What is a domain?
a. a type of lightning bolt
b. an area controlled by a ruler
c. a god with no powers
b. an area controlled by a ruler
Use the word fled in a sentence that shows the meaning. Fled is the past tense of flee.
Examples: The robber fled after robbing the bank.
The people fled when the building caught fire.
Paragraph 6: Cronos felt a terrible pain in his stomach. Which word is an ADJECTIVE that describes something?
a. stomach
b. felt
c. terrible
c. terrible
Paragraph 7: Together with his brothers and sisters, Zeus battled his father and overthrew him.
Why did Zeus want to battle his father?
Zeus wanted to kick his father out of power.