Stormbreaker: Study Guide Questions Chapters 1 - 3 1. His

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• 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 wasnt wearing a seat
  belt
• 5. He knew his uncle was very careful and always
  wore his seat belt
• 6. His uncles BMW
• 7. His uncle hadnt died in an accident. There
  were bullet holes on the drivers side of the car

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• 8. He hides in the car. The car is picked up by
  the crane, the cars 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 uncles 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

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• 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

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• 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
  Riders 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

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• 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

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• 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 gamesgt 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. Hes a contract killer. He was born in
  Russia but works for many countries

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• Chapters 7 - 9
• 1. He lived in Hampstead, North London. He went
  to a school called St. Anthonys, 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.

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• 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. Its 99 water with no brain, no guts, and no
  anus. Its 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

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• 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

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• 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 4s.
  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

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• 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 uncles
  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 divers 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

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• 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. Its a form of smallpox that has been
  genetically modified to make it faster and
  stronger, and more lethal

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• 6. He plans for the prime minister to press a
  button at 1200 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

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• 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

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• 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 hes
  been away for 3 weeks with a very bad flu
• 22. Alex will live in his uncles house and Jack
  will get her visa renewed and look after Alex
• 23. He is taken by the driver, Sayle, to a
  buildings helipad
• 24. Yassen Gregorich
• 25. He says, It would be better if we didnt
  meet again. Killing is for grown ups.