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Quests!
In Our Own Time
Words, Words, Words
The Giver and Genie in a Bottle
The Woods Were Lovely, Dark and Deep
100
Percy travels across the country with these two friends. (First names are fine.)
Who are Annabeth and Grover?
100
This economic crisis is the worst since the Great Depression.
What is the recession?
100
This adjective describes something that is so behind the times technologically and no longer functions as it should.
What is obsolete?
100
She is the beautiful young woman who tells one heck of a great story.
Who is Sharazad? (Scheherezade)
100
Instead of paragraphs, lines in a poem are gathered together and called this.
What is a stanza?
200
This is what Percy has to return to Mt. Olympus.
Who is a thunderbolt?
200
These are President Obama's two daughters.
Who are Malia and Sasha?
200
This adjective describes a kind of speaking that involves the fewest number of words.
What is terse?
200
A community that is ideal where all problems have solutions is called this.
What is a utopia?
200
"Mightiest yet mildest of man" is one example of this feature of poetry."
What is alliteration?
300
He is about 12 feet high, has arms like a gorilla, and has a distorted human face. He loathes the happy song of the Danish warriors in the meadhall.
Who was Grendel?
300
This is the middle name of our current president.
What is Hussein?
300
This phobia is fear of closed in areas.
What is claustrophobia?
300
This is an important symbol of freedom, of the risks and the exhilaration of freedom, and of what has been lost when the community went to sameness.
What is the sled?
300
Crunch and munch, squeeze and squash, clip and clop, rap and rip, are all examples of this.
What is onomatopoeia?
400
In A Wrinkle in Time, part of Meg's quest is to retrieve her brother.This is his name.
Who was Charles Wallace?
400
President Obama is withdrawing troops from Iraq but sending more to this country.
What is Afghanistan?
400
This is a fear of strangers and has come to mean a dislike of foreigners.
What is xenophobia?
400
A place where the desire to create a perfect world has created a world without freedom is called this.
What is a dystopia?
400
"The fog came on little cat feet" is an example of this.
What is personification?
500
The winged sneakers were supposed to pull Percy back into this place.
What is Tartarus?
500
If confirmed, she will be the first Latina Supreme Court justice and only the third woman.
Who is Sotomayor?
500
The stock market goes up and down, and this verb describes that activity.
What is to fluctuate?
500
She outwits Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves.
Who is
500
He was the poet who wrote "This is just to say..."
Who is William Carlos Williams?