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Rick Riordan

The Last Olympian

Fiction | Novel | YA | Published in 2009

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Reading Questions & Paired Texts

Reading Check and Short Answer Questions on key points are designed for guided reading assignments, in-class review, formative assessment, quizzes, and more.

CHAPTERS 1-4

Reading Check

1. What is the Princess Andromeda?

2. Whose underwater palace does Percy find himself in?

3. Who is Silena Beauregard?

4. Why are the Apollo cabin and Ares cabin fighting?

Short Answer

Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. Who is Charles Beckendorf? How is he killed?

2. How does Percy interpret the Prophecy he gets from the Oracle of Delphi?

Paired Resource

A Day in the Life of the Oracle of Delphi

  • This short Ted-Ed video explores the daily tasks and responsibilities of the Delphic oracle.
  • This connects to the theme of Predestination Versus Free Will.
  • Why was the Oracle of Delphi so important to the Greeks? How is the oracle portrayed in Riordan’s novel?

CHAPTERS 5-8

Reading Check

1. With whose ghost has Nico been speaking?

2. What is the Door of Orpheus?

Short Answer

Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. Why does Percy go to Westport, Connecticut?

2. What is the deal Nico made with his father Hades?

3. What does the ghost of Achilles tell Percy?

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