Playing Atari with Saddam Hussein
This video game character turned into Saddam Hussein in Ali's nightmare.
What is The Quotile from Yar's Revenge?
The "Comrades" send this to the Lomachenko home in a white envelope.
What is a louse (carrying typhus)?
The three sons of Kronos.
Who are Zeus, Poseidon, & Hades?
Chiron warns Percy that, on his quest, he will see things much worse than these.
What are hellhounds?
Matthew lives here during the COVID lockdown.
What is Leonia, New Jersey?
This sound meant Ali and his family were safe for the moment.
What is the "all clear" siren?
The three old ladies who appear on the bus at the beginning of Percy's quest.
What are the Furies?
Nickname Annabeth gives Percy.
What is Seaweed Brain?
GG's nickname for Mila.
What is Little Fox?
Dasha's relationship to Mila.
What is her housekeeper/cook/caretaker?
Ali and Mustafa missed these everyday things during the war.
What are electricity, cars, cold drinks (Coca-Cola), beds, garbage trucks, etc..?
Ali says this is his best English teacher.
What is the television?
The private school where Percy attends at the beginning of the book.
What is Yancy Academy?
Saddam wants Kuwait for its abundance of this natural resource.
What is oil?
The name for wealthier peasants who resisted giving up their land for collective farms
Who were the Kulaks?
The punishment for speaking ill of Saddam Hussein.
What is removing one's tongue?
Holodomor is the name for this historical event.
What is the Ukrainian famine of 1932-33?
This happens when a godly parent claims his/her child.
What is a symbol appearing over their child's head?
Sally Jackson turns into this when she disappears.
What is golden dust?
Matthew's great-grandmother's name.
What is Galina (or GG)?
Ali's father's profession.
What is a dentist?
Clarisse tries to dunk Percy's head in one of these.
What is a toilet?
Grover's species.
What is a satyr?
This person unwittingly protected Percy for years by covering up his smell.
Who is Gabe Ugliano (Percy's stepfather)?
Where Mila (GG) lives in Ukraine during the Holodomor.
What is Kyiv (or Kiev)?