Artemis Fowl

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Artemis Fowl

Eoin ColferFiction | Novel | Middle Grade | Published in 2001

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PROLOGUE-CHAPTER 2

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Reading Check

1. What is Artemis’s biggest problem, according to the Prologue?

2. When was Butler paired with Artemis?

3. What is Artemis’s ultimate goal?

4. To what language does Artemis compare what he finds in the Book?

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Short Answer

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

1. How does Artemis convince the fairy in Ho Chi Minh City to let him look at her Book?

2. What happened to Artemis’s father? How does it affect his life now?

3. Why is it significant that Artemis turns off CNN?

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“Meet the Author”

This site offers information about the author, Eoin Colfer.
Why might it be important to learn about Colfer when reading his book?

CHAPTERS 3-4

Reading Check

1. Where does Holly live?

2. What is the name of the centaur who provides the LEP’s tech?

3. What does “LEP” stand for?

4. For what people do fairies feel a particular affection?

Short Answer

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

1. What does it mean when Root calls Holly a “test case” (Chapter 3)?

2. What does Holly initially keep from the Commander?

3. Why does Holly need permission to enter a human dwelling?

4. How does Artemis avoid being mesmerized by Holly?

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“The Stolen Child”

This poem by W. B. Yeats poem references Ireland’s history and folklore concerning fairies.
The poem’s themes connect to the novel’s themes of Destruction Resulting from Human Greed and Caring for One’s Family and People.
How does this poem compare to the novel in language and tone? What is the personality of the faery speaker? How does this speaker compare with fairy characters in the novel?

“Leprechaun”

This informative entry from the World History Encyclopedia discusses leprechauns and the common myths about them.
How does the information about leprechauns in this article compare with Colfer’s version of leprechauns (the LEPrecon division)?

CHAPTERS 5-6

Reading Check

1. Why does Commander Root go to Ireland?

2. What does Root find aboard the whaler?

3. What does Holly find in her boot?

Short Answer

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

1. When Angeline claims that Artemis Senior has returned, how does Artemis react?

2. What does Artemis claim in order to manipulate Holly?

3. What is the blue rinse?

4. What is the last thing that Artemis says to Commander Root before he leaves Fowl Manor?

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“Fairy Song”

This poem by Louisa May Alcott tells the story of fairies who arrive at night.
Why is it significant that the fairies in this poem come for the night? How might Colfer be playing on that part of the myth in Artemis Fowl? In what other ways does the author play on fairy myths?

CHAPTERS 7-8

Reading Check

1. What are Mulch’s skills?

2. The LEP think Mulch dies. What really happens to Mulch?

3. Who takes over the operation and attempts to use a troll as a weapon?

Short Answer

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

1. Why is Mulch able to enter Fowl Manor when other fairies are not?

2. Once the doctors reveal Artemis’s mistake, what is Root’s plan?

3. What is Holly’s initial plan after she completes the Ritual?

4. How does Butler survive the troll attack?

CHAPTER 9-EPILOGUE

Reading Check

1. How much gold does Holly take out of Fowl Manor?

2. What does Artemis give Butler and Juliet to drink?

3. What happens when the LEP try to enter Fowl Manor after the blue rinse?

Short Answer

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

1. How does Butler feel about holding Holly hostage after the troll is defeated?

2. What was Artemis’s wish to Holly?

3. What does Dr. Argon warn readers against doing in the Epilogue?

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Reading Questions Answer Key

PROLOGUE-CHAPTER 2

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1. His intelligence (Prologue)

2. When Artemis was born (Chapter 1)

3. Gold to restore his family’s fortune to billionaire status (Chapter 2)

4. Egyptian (Chapter 2)

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1. He promises to heal her from the poison he’s given her and to cure her dependence on alcohol. He offers the antidote before she gives him the Book as a gesture of good faith and the injection for her alcohol use disorder after she relinquishes the Book. (Chapter 1)

2. His father disappeared one year ago. After Artemis Senior attempted to establish new shipping channels to post-communist Russia, the Russian Mafia blew up the ship he was on, so many presume him dead. Artemis is affected in several ways: He wants to restore the family fortune which was depleted in the failure of the shipping business. He has watched and waited for news of his father’s rescue for a year. Additionally, his mother’s resulting mental health condition gives him relatively limitless freedom. (Chapter 2)

3. It implies that Artemis might be giving up on his father’s rescue and return; he has had it playing since his father went missing, but now wants to concentrate on translating the Book. (Chapter 2)

CHAPTERS 3-4

Reading Check

1. Underground in Haven City (Chapter 3)

2. Foaly (Chapter 3)

3. Lower Elements Police (Chapter 3)

4. The Irish (Chapter 4)

Short Answer

1. It refers to the fact that Holly is the first female LEPrecon officer, and many are watching her performance closely to judge how well future female officers might perform. (Chapter 3)

2. She does not tell him that she is running low on magic and needs to complete the Ritual. (Chapter 3)

3. That fairies need permission from humans to enter their dwellings is one of the rules that govern fairies’ existence. This and other rules can be found in the Book. (Chapter 3)

4. He wears mirrored sunglasses. (Chapter 4)

CHAPTERS 5-6

Reading Check

1. Root follows Holly’s locator signal there to rescue her. He finds the locator on a whaling ship where Artemis planted it. (Chapter 5)

2. A bomb (Chapter 5)

3. The acorn she intended to plant for the Ritual (Chapter 6)

Short Answer

1. Artemis feels sorry for pushing Artemis Senior to the back of his mind. He also plays along with his mother’s delirium, pretending to be her father and granting Artemis Senior time off from work. (Chapter 6)

2. Artemis tells Holly that she betrayed the People by telling him everything about the fairies under the influence of truth serum. (Chapter 6)

3. It is a biological weapon intended to kill in a localized way; the fairies intend to use it to kill everyone inside Fowl Manor, but it will have no effect outside its walls. (Chapter 6)

4. Knowing the rules by which fairies live, Artemis tells Root that no fairy can enter his home while he is alive. (Chapter 6)

CHAPTERS 7-8

Reading Check

1. Digging and stealing (Chapter 7)

2. He fakes his own death so he can escape. He also steals half of the gold ransom. (Chapter 7)

3. Cudgeon (Chapter 8)

Short Answer

1. Mulch has already given up his magic. (Chapter 7)

2. Root plans to give Artemis the gold, use the blue rinse, and then go in to retrieve the gold (Chapter 8).

3. She will create as much destruction as possible in Fowl Manor so Artemis lets her go. (Chapter 8)

4. Holly heals him out of empathy. (Chapter 8)

CHAPTER 9-EPILOGUE

Reading Check

1. Half (Chapter 9)

2. Champagne laced with sedatives (his mother’s sleeping pills) (Chapter 9)

3. They vomit since they did not receive an invitation to enter. (Chapter 9)

Short Answer

1. Butler is a man of honor, and it is difficult for him to continue to hold Holly for ransom when she saved his life and helped to defeat the troll. (Chapter 9)

2. Artemis asked Holly to heal his mother. (Chapter 9)

3. Argon warns readers against romanticizing Artemis and advises them to remain wary of his methods and skills. (Epilogue)