7th Grade Language Arts
The Lightning Thief
Name: ________________________________________
Chapter 2 Activities
Cause/Effect
Use your book to help you answer the following questions.
1. ____Because Percy was having bad dreams, which of the following did NOT happen?
A. His grades dropped lower.
C. He got kicked out of Yancy.
B. He got into more fights.
D. He was cranky and irritable.
2. ____What caused Percy to get expelled (kicked out) of Yancy?
A. He called his teacher an old sot
B. He cheated on his Tom Sawyer paper.
C. He kept having bad dreams.
D. He pushed Nancy into the fountain.
3. ____When Percy went to ask Mr. Brunner for help with his Latin test, what happened?
A. Mr. Brunner wasn’t there.
B. He overheard a conversation between Grover and Mr. Brunner.
C. Grover helped him instead.
D. He got lost and just went back to room.
4. ____Why did Mr. Brunner stop talking and check the hallway?
A. Grover heard a noise.
C. Mr. Brunner heard a noise.
B. Percy called his name.
D. He was done talking to Grover.
5. ____Because Mr. Brunner said Yancy wasn’t the place for Percy, Percy ___.
A. yelled at him.
C. had a stinging in his eyes.
B. ran out of the room.
D. disagreed with him.
6. ____Why does Percy not get to go anywhere special during the summer?
A. He’s in trouble for getting kicked out of Yancy.
B. Grover won’t let him.
C. He doesn’t want to go anywhere.
D. His family isn’t rich.
7. ____When Percy asks Grover about the Kindly Ones, Grover ______
A. gets fidgety and nervous.
C. gets angry at Percy.
B. pretends he doesn’t hear Percy.
D. tells Percy about them.
8. ____Because Grover is worried about Percy over the summer, he________.
A. says he is going to live with Percy.
B. gives him a good luck charm.
C. asks Percy to come live with him.
D. gives him his business card.
9. ____What caused the Greyhound bus to pull over?
A. It had a flat tire.
C. Someone shouted “Fire.”
B. Three old ladies flagged it over.
D. Black smoke poured into the bus.
7th Grade Language Arts
The Lightning Thief
Name: ________________________________________
10. ____While Percy is waiting for the bus, he sees ________.
A. A taco stand.
B. Three old ladies sewing in rocking chairs.
C. Mrs. Dodds calling him to cross the street.
D. Grover helping the bus driver.
11. ____Because three old ladies were looking directly at Percy,
A. Grover gets jealous.
C. Grover decides to talk to them.
B. Percy decides to talk to them.
D. Grover gets very nervous.
12. ____What caused Grover to get extremely upset?
A. Percy was mean to him.
B. Percy saw the three old ladies snip yarn with scissors.
C. The three old ladies smiled cruelly at Grover.
D. The bus was ready to leave.
Figurative Language
Identify the figurative language used in each of the sentences below.
1.
Finally, when our English teacher, Mr. Nicoll, asked me for the millionth time why I
was too lazy to study for our spelling test, I snapped. (17)
2.
The view of the woods out my dorm window, the Hudson River in the distance, the
smell of pine trees. (17)
3.
Words had started swimming off the page, circling my head, the letters doing oneeighties as if they were riding skateboards. (18)
4.
Black smoke poured from the dashboard and the whole bus filled with the smell of
rotten eggs. (25)
5.
The driver … limped the bus over to the side of the highway. (25)
6.
All three women looked ancient, with pale faces wrinkled like fruit leather, silver hair
tied back in white bandannas, bony arms sticking out of bleached cotton dresses. (25)
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7th Grade Language Arts
The Lightning Thief
Name: ________________________________________
Main Idea, Summary, Paraphrase
1. Summarize the event beginning on page 25 and ending on page 26.
2. What is the main idea of the bottom half of page 22?
3. Paraphrase page 18 “The evening before…” through page 19 “I froze.”