Characters | Setting | Mythological Influence | Quotations: Who Said What and Why? | Figurative language: describe the example |
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Who is Grover?
He wears "shag-carpet pants."
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What is the Jackson house?
Gabe and his cronies play poker here day after day.
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What is the minotaur?
This is a monster slain by Theseus and later by Percy.
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What did Sally Jackson say to Percy about Camp Half-Blood?
I couldn't send you to that place.
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What is an idiom?
The letters looked Greek to me.
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Who is Annabeth?
She is the young daughter of Athena and a history professor.
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What is Yancy Academy?
A school for kids other people would like to strangle.
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Who is Pan?
He is the satyr that Grover hopes to search for and find.
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What did Gabe say to Sally during the poker game?
How about some bean dip, huh?
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What is alliteration?
Most of the other cabins were crowded with campers.
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Who is Mrs. Dobbs?
She is one of the Furies who poses as a math teacher.
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What is Montauk?
A beach where Sally met Percy's father.
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Who is Argus?
He has 100 eyes and is always awake.
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What did Mr. Brunner say to Percy who had just gotten expelled?
Don't be discouraged about leaving Yancy. It's for the best.
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What is imagery?
It was a little pastel box with faded curtains, half sunken into the dunes.
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Who is Sally Jackson, Percy's mother?
She works at a candy store and loves blue food.
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What is the Museum of Metropolitan Art?
See an ancient stele and a frieze here.
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Who is Hera?
She has an honorary cabin but it is always vacant.
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What did Grover say when Nancy Bobofit threw bits of her sandwich at him?
It's okay. I like peanut butter.
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What is a simile?
He looked like a tuskless walrus in thrift-store clothes.
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Who is Luke?
A bright white scar marks his cheek.
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What is Cabin #11 or Hermes' cabin?
Undetermined half-bloods sleep here.
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Who are Zeus, Poseidon, and Hades?
They are the Big Three.
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What did Mr. D. say to Percy when he arrived at camp?
You do know how to play pinochle.
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What is an allusion?
"He might as well as have transferred me to stable-cleaning duty."
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