Artemis Fowl By Eoin Colfer

Reading Comprehension Questions

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Chapters: Prologue – 3 Pgs 1-30 Week 1

1. Where were Artemis and Butler? Who were they waiting for?

2. What is it about Aretmis that makes him appear more as a man than a 13 year old boy?

3. Who did Nguyen take Artemis to see? What did Artemis want?

4. What was wrong with the old lady? What did Artemis promise her?

5. Why was Artemis so interested in fairies? What was he going to do with his knowledge?

6. How was Artemis able to get so much free time? What was wrong with his mother?

7. What did Artemis have to do to get the book translated? Did it work?

Vocabulary:

Page # Words 4 pessimism 5 gaunt 7 excruciating 14 reverentially 18 trawling 19 exploit 20 intolerable

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Chapters: 3-4 Pgs 31-77 Week 2

1. Who is Holly Short? Who does she work for?

2. What does LEP stand for? What is the name of Holly's unit?

3. Why was Captain Root so hard on Holly? What did he decide to do with Holly?

4. What happened that gave Holly a second chance? What did she lie to Captain Root about? Why did she lie?

5. Who is Foaly? Why does he wear a foil cap?

6. How did Holly get to the surface? What did she use for transportation at the surface?

7. What made Holly disobey Captian Roots instructions? What happened that made things worse?

8. Why was Holly unable to sheild herself in the restraunt? What did Captain Root demand that she do?

9. Where did Holly have to go to preform the ritual? Why?

10. What happened to Holly before she could preform the ritual? Why did this happen?

Vocabulary:

Page # Words PPage # Words 31 geniality 44 shrapnel 32 kleptomaniac 47 seismology 38 aghast 52 swathe 41 translucent 56 pliant 42 pneumatic 67 implicitly

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Chapter: 5 Pgs 78-112 Week 3

1. What does Foaly show Captian Root that is important? What two things does the Captain find VERY upsetting?

2. What did Artemis think of the Fairy techology? Why did he think this?

3. What did he do with the locator? Why did he do this?

4. What diversion did Butler cause for Artemis? What did Butler do to cause this diversion?

5. Where was Holly when she woke up? Who was with her?

6. What kind of glasses was Juliet wearing? Why were they a problem for Holly?

7. Artemis ruined two things for Holly after she woke up. What were those two things?

8. What problem did Captain Root have with the first set of Dublin blue prints? How did Foaly fix it?

9. What was waiting for Captain Root on the whaler? How did Artemis do it?

10. What did Artemis do on the whaler to show he was serious? Did it work?

Vocabulary:

Page # Words Page # Words 78 noxious 92 albeit 85 diminutive 92-93 modus operandi 90 frivolity 93 ostentatious beleaguered, besieged 110 censored

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Chapter: 6 Pgs 113 - 160 Week 4

1. What news did Juliet bring Artemis that surprised him?

2. How did Artemis feel after visiting his mother? Why did he feel this way?

3. What did Holly find in her boot? Why would this be important?

4. What lie did Artemis tell Holly? Why did he tell this lie?

5. What did Holly say that began to worry Artemis?

6. What did Lieutenant Cudgeon mean by «blue rinse?» What is it and what does it do?

7. How did Artemis help Butler see the fairies on the grounds?

8. What happened to the first Recon Squadron? Why did it happen?

9. What was Holly doing in her cell? Why was she doing that?

10. Where was Comander Root going by himself? What two things did Foaly give him first?

11. What was Artemis' demands? What did he say that made them think that he really could leave the time-field?

Vocabulary:

Page # Words Page # Words 132 incapacitate, insolent 132 fervently 119 serum, undeniably 135 tribunal 124 subverting 157 charlatan 127 crenelated

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Chapter: 7 Pgs 161-200 Week 5

1. Who is Mulch? Where was he, and why was he there?

2. What speices is Mulch? How does he tunnel and why?

3. Why did Commander Root want to see Mulch? What did Mulch ask for and get to do what Commander Root wanted?

4. Where did Mulch enter the house? How did he pick the lock?

5. What did Foaly do to help with the video cameras? How did it help?

6. Where did Mulch find the real safe? What happened after he opened the safe?

7. What happened to Butler? What was Holly doing at the same time?

8. How did Holly get out of her cell? Who did she meet?

9. What did Mulch do that tricked both Commander Root and Foaly? Why did he do it?

Vocabulary:

Page # Words Page # Words 161 larcenies 173 subsidence 162 lucrative 178 aerated 165 elongated 195 irredeemable 168 sluice 198 explicative, relinquish 171 amnesty

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Chapter: 8 Pgs 201-240 Week 6

1. What mistake did the faires believe Artemis had made? What was the new plan?

2. Why had Commander Root lost being in charge? Who was the new officer in charge?

3. What was now going to be attempted to free Holly from the Fowl Manor? How did Holly find out?

4. What did Holly get in Artemis' office? What did she to to Artemis?

5. What did the troll do to Butler? How did his sister react? Why?

6. What did the troll do to Holly? Why was Foaly not worried about it?

7. What happened to Butler and Holly while they were injured? What did Butler do?

8. How did Butler beat the troll? What was he wearing and using?

9. Why did Butler not finish the troll off? What did Holly mean by that?

Vocabulary:

Page # Words 212 mausoleum 216 appalled, imploded 217 aplomb 218 enraptured 221 infinitesimal 225 piqued 233 semicongealed

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Chapter: 9 Pgs 241 -280 Week 7

1. Why had Artemis not gone down stairs to fight the troll? How did he know Butler had beaten it?

2. How does Foaly feel about Aretmis? How can you tell?

3. What is Artemis' final «ultimatum»? How long does he give LEP to do it?

4. What did Commander Root and Foaly say that upset Cudegon? Was it a lie or the truth?

5. Why was Holly upset? What did she do about it?

6. What did Holly do that surprised Commander Root? What did he say about Juliet? Why?

7. What happened after the bio-bomb went off? What happened to the fairies who went into the house? Why did that happen?

8. Where did Mulch go? What did he do?

9. How did Artemis and his group escape the time-field? Why did this work?

10. What wish did Artemis ask Holly to grant? Did it work?

11. How would Artemis' mother being well change his life?

Vocabulary:

Page # Words Page # Words 240 astute 261 audacious 241 antagonize 264 nonchalance 246 blatant, conspicuous 269 pilfering 253 disintegrated 275 reneged

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