Part 2 odyssey

Question 1

2 Examples of dramatic irony

Answer 1

1) when we know Odysseus is coming home but they don’t

2) when we know that Odysseus is the beggar but they don’t

Question 2

Themes of the Odyssey

Answer 2

Hospitality, loyalty

Question 3

what is foreshadowing?

Answer 3

when events/characters give hints to what’s going to happen later

Question 4

Example of foreshadowing

Answer 4

Penelope’s dream

Question 5

Telemachus

Answer 5

Son of Penelope and Odysseus; goes on journey to try and find it Odysseus

Question 6

Tieresias

Answer 6

blind prophet that Odysseus sees in the land of the dead

Question 7

Syclla

Answer 7

6 headed monster that prevents Odysseus from getting home

Question 8

Eurylochus

Answer 8

Odysseus’ second in command

Question 9

Athena

Answer 9

goddess that helps Odysseus throughout the story

Question 10

Poseidon

Answer 10

god that hates Odysseus and prevents him from getting home

Question 11

Melanthius

Answer 11

kicked Odysseus; brother of Melantho; wanted to kick out “the poor man”; rude to Odysseus

Question 12

Eurymachus

Answer 12

threw chair at Odysseus; suitor; wants Penelope

Question 13

Penelope

Answer 13

Odysseus wife/Telemachus mother; yelled at Melantho for being rude to the beggar; is holding a contest for her hand

Question 14

Laertes

Answer 14

Odysseus’ dad who he goes to see and he doesn’t recognize him

Question 15

Circe

Answer 15

pretty witch who turned Odysseus’ crew into pigs

Question 16

Charybdis

Answer 16

whirlpool monster that Odysseus has to face coming home

Question 17

Lord Helios

Answer 17

freaks out when Odysseus and his men stop at his island and eat is animals

Question 18

Zeus

Answer 18

God that helps Odysseus get home

Question 19

Eumaeus

Answer 19

told to tell the maids to lock themselves in their rooms; swarnhead

Question 20

Theoclymenus

Answer 20

Prophet who interprets the omen of Penelope’s dream

Question 21

Antinous

Answer 21

suitor who Odysseus kills first; rude to Odysseus throughout the story

Question 22

Eurycleia

Answer 22

Nurse who notices Odysseus’ scar when he is the beggar

Question 23

Irus

Answer 23

beggar that Odysseus got into a fight with

Question 24

Leodes

Answer 24

suitor who Odysseus killed last

Question 25

Ajax

Answer 25

War hero Odysseus encounters in the underworld

Question 26

Sirens

Answer 26

Mermaids that sang and caused trouble at sea for Odysseus

Question 27

Amphinous

Answer 27

suitor that gets killed by Telemachus

Question 28

Medon

Answer 28

tells Penelope the suitors plan to kill Telemachus

Question 29

Melantho

Answer 29

servant of Penelope; rude to the beggar; yelled at by Penelope; daughter of Dolius; sister of Melanthius

Question 30

Agamemnon

Answer 30

got killed by wife; brother of Menelaus; former king of Myeenae

Question 31

Phemios

Answer 31

poet who entertains the suitors

Question 32

Anticleia

Answer 32

Odysseus' mother who kills herself

Question 33

Eupithes

Answer 33

Antinous' father who tries to get revenge on Odysseus

Question 34

Ctesippus

Answer 34

threw hoof at Odysseus

Question 35

the beggar

Answer 35

Odysseus in disguise when he first gets back to Ithaca