Stormbreaker: Study Guide Questions

1. Stormbreaker: Study Guide Questions Chapters 1 - 3 1. His own parents died in a plane crash 2. He finds out his uncle has died in a car accident 3. His uncle was overseas finance manager at the bank. He was responsible for their foreign branches 4. He was in a car crash & wasn�t wearing a seat belt 5. He knew his uncle was very careful and always wore his seat belt 6. His uncle�s BMW 7. His uncle hadn�t died in an accident. There were bullet holes on the driver�s side of the car

2. Stormbreaker: Study Guide Questions 8. He hides in the car. The car is picked up by the crane, the car�s roof is crushed, and it is loaded on the crusher 9. With a lethal karate kick 10. John Crawley, from the bank. His voice sounded threatening 11. So he can be watched. A camera in the office caught all of his actions 12. He opened the window from the office next door and climbed out onto the ledge. He used the flagpole to jump across to his uncle�s office (the ledge outside). He opens the window and goes inside 13. He finds 4 or 5 thick files that had nothing to do with banking. One of the files was marked: STORMBREAKER

3. Stormbreaker: Study Guide Questions Chapters 4 - 6 14. He wakes up on a bed in an old room with beams across the ceiling, a stone fireplace, and windows in an ornate wooden frame 15. Blunt is the chief executive of the Special Operations Division of MI6. Mrs. Jones is head of operations for MI6 16. His uncle was a field agent. He had been working undercover in Cornwall, England and was driving back to London to make a report when he was killed 17. Herod Sayle lived in poverty in Cairo. He had 9 brothers and 4 sisters, and he never went to school. He saved some English tourists from being hit by a falling piano. They adopted him and brought him to England. He went to Cambridge and got a degree in economics

4. Stormbreaker: Study Guide Questions 18. The Stormbreaker is a revolutionary computer made by Sayle Enterprises. It uses a round processor. It is black with a lightning bolt going down the side. He is giving the Stormbreaker to every secondary school in England 19. There will be a special ceremony at the Science Museum in London. The prime minister will press a button to bring all the Stormbreakers on-line 20. Alex will pretend to be Felix Lester, the boy who won the competition to meet Herod Sayle and be the first one to use the Stormbreaker. He will work as a spy for MI6 21. Jack will have to go back to America. Ian Rider�s house will be sold and Alex will be sent to an institution 22. He was staying in a crude wooden hut a few miles away from the manor house. It was his 9th or 10th day of training

5. Stormbreaker: Study Guide Questions 23. His code name was Cub. Wolf called him Double O Nothing 24. He learned map reading, radio communication, and first aid 25. The Killing House was a mock-up of an embassy used to train the SAS in the art of the hostage release 26. He is hit in the chest by Wolf and knocked back into the Killing House. He hits the trip wire and ruins the exercise 27. He saw what happened on the film from the closed-circuit TV inside the Killing House 28. A book of matches 29. He lived abroad so he spoke French, German, and Spanish. He had learned mountain climbing, diving, skiing, and karate

6. Stormbreaker: Study Guide Questions 30. A yo-yo: contains 30 yds. of a special nylon string, it can lift weights up to 200 lbs., and is motorized - useful for climbing. Zit-clean: useful for breaking through a lock. Nintendo Color Game Boy: comes with 4 games> Nemesis makes the Game Boy a fax/photocopier and gives direct contact with MI6, Exocet turns the Game Boy into an X-ray device and has an audio function useful for eavesdropping, Speed Wars is a bug finder, and Bomber Boy is a smoke bomb 31. He killed his uncle and was working for Sayle. He�s a contract killer. He was born in Russia but works for many countries

7. Stormbreaker: Study Guide Questions Chapters 7 - 9 1. He lived in Hampstead, North London. He went to a school called St. Anthony�s, had 2 sisters, and a pet Labrador. His father was an architect and his mother designed jewelry. He liked John Lennon. 2. Port Tallon is a fishing village that was pretty. Cornwall had an old tin mine 3. It had a brand new 20 ft. high metal fence with huge signs, red on white, that read �Sayle Enterprises, Strictly Private� 4. There were art works everywhere. The huge canvas is Judgment Day and it is significant because this mission could be the �end of the world� for Alex 5. It was practically bare. It was a modern room with a curving steel desk. There was a gigantic aquarium.

8. Stormbreaker: Study Guide Questions 6. He was short. His skin was dark and his teeth flashed when he smiled. He had a round bald head and very horrible eyes 7. It reminds him of himself 8. It�s 99% water with no brain, no guts, and no anus. It�s an outsider 9. He asks to be called Alex. He says his friends call him Alex after Alex Ferguson, the manager of his favorite soccer team 10. He works for Sayle. He used to work in a circus as a knife-throwing act. He had an accident that left him with scars on his face that resembled a grin. He has no tongue 11. The 3 hairs he had inserted into the zipper were gone

9. Stormbreaker: Study Guide Questions 12. His uncle 13. A piece of paper with a design on it and what looked like a reference number 14. Block A - administration and recreation. Block B- software development. Block C - research and storage. Block D - the main Stormbreaker assembly line 15. The corridor was split in half with a metal staircase leading to a basement. The staircase was unlabeled 16. It was a large room with something tall and barrel shaped in the middle of it. There were people inside 17. That Alex will not score at the game of snooker 18. 4000 pounds

10. Stormbreaker: Study Guide Questions 19. He was sent to Sayle Enterprises to keep an eye on things. He spent half his time in the village, in the port, the post office, and the library 20. Metallic silver boxes were being unloaded. One of the men dropped one of the boxes and Yassen shot him Chapters 10 - 12 21. He was chased by 2 men on Kawasaki 4 x 4�s. They stretched cheese wire and used flame throwers to get rid of Alex. Then he got one of the quads himself and headed after one of the drivers 22. He was looking for a book about viruses. He was interested in Cornish local history

11. Stormbreaker: Study Guide Questions 23. The land above the mine was sold to Sayle Enterprises. The mine was sealed off with several tunnels under water. The corridor was one of the shafts from the old mine. The map, showing the layout of the tunnels, matched his uncle�s drawing. It showed the way through the tunnels 24. He took the map and his foot clanged on the metal trap door 25. He left a diver�s dry suit and a rope tied to a rock. His uncle had swum through the submerged tunnel and was planning to come back before he was killed 26. Used as the outlet for some sort of air-conditioning system 27. A large white-tiled room, a laboratory. Another grill revealed a storage room filled with silver boxes

12. Stormbreaker: Study Guide Questions 28. They were some sort of weapon that was being used for killing, possibly a virus 29. Alex used a classic karate blow 30. He went back to his bedroom and Mr. Grin was standing in the hallway. He hit Alex in the jaw Chapters 13 - 15 1. Handcuffed to a radiator in a small dark room 2. The image of the figures writhing in agony might be repeated all over England 3. He was mocked, bullied, and called names 4. Small, smarmy, charming, popular 5. It�s a form of smallpox that has been genetically modified to make it faster and stronger, and more lethal

13. Stormbreaker: Study Guide Questions 6. He plans for the prime minister to press a button at 12:00 noon to activate the computers and release the virus 7. She releases him from the handcuffs and tells him she's on his side 8. He used the zit cream to make the glass separate from the girders of the aquarium 9. She was killed by the rush of water out of the aquarium when it broke 10. He chased the plane in a jeep, then fired a harpoon gun into the plane with his yo-yo attached to his belt 11. That he be taken to London and the Science Museum

14. Stormbreaker: Study Guide Questions Chapters 16 - 17 12. 7 minutes 13. To steer the plane into him and cut him into shreds in midair 14. He used the Bomber Boy game to set off a smoke bomb by remote control 15. Mr. Grin vanished and the plane crashed. It disappeared in a ball of flame 16. A rectangular building with a flat gray roof and next to it, a series of arches 17. He crashed into the orange roof with both feet. His parachute got caught on a beam

15. Stormbreaker: Study Guide Questions 18. Smashed into the information desk, hit the prime minister in the hand, blow up the computer mouse, hit an electrical connection, and 2 hit Sayle 19. Mrs. Jones told them not to shoot 20. Sayle disappeared. It was announced that the Stormbreakers have a product fault and anyone turning them on could get electrocuted 21. He has a letter from a doctor explaining he�s been away for 3 weeks with a very bad flu 22. Alex will live in his uncle�s house and Jack will get her visa renewed and look after Alex 23. He is taken by the driver, Sayle, to a building�s helipad 24. Yassen Gregorich 25. He says, �It would be better if we didn�t meet again. Killing is for grown ups.�