Semester review Odyssey

Question 1

What is homer doing in the beginning of the play?

Answer 1

Homer asks the Muses to help tell the story.

Question 2

Odysseus is trapped on Calypso’s island for ____ years

Answer 2

7

Question 3

Odysseus is trapped on Calypso’s island for 7 years and finally, _____is sent by___to rescue him

Answer 3

Hermes;

Zeus

Question 4

Calypso offers Odysseus___but he____

Answer 4

immortality;

refuses

Question 5

After Odysseus is found by the daughter of ______

Answer 5

Alcinous

Question 6

Oddy tells Alcinous that after plundering the lands of ____, instead of leaving, his men got ____ and when they passed out, the townspeople ____their____, the_____ and ___ the men. In the end they lost ____per____

Answer 6

Ismaros;
Drunk;
summoned their army, the cicones;
killed;
6 men;
ship

Question 7

Odysseus and his men needed______so they stopped at _____.

Answer 7

fresh water;

the land of the Lotus Eaters;

Question 8

The Lotus Eaters offer_____-to the hungry men

Answer 8

lotus

Question 9

What does the lotus plant do?

Answer 9

Makes whoever that eats the lotus will never want to return home ever again.

Question 10

In _______ cave, Odysseus and his men take ____ and _____which enrages the _____.

Answer 10

Polyphemus’s;
food and wine;
enrages;
Cyclops;

Question 11

Polyphemus _____ the men and_____ the doorway with a _____.

Answer 11

eats;
blocks;
giant rock;

Question 12

Polyphemus asks Odysseus what his name is, to which the reply is ______ .

Answer 12

“Nobody”

Question 13

Polyphemus passes out and Odysseus _____ him in the ___.

Answer 13

stabs;

eye

Question 14

They escape Polyphemus by hiding _________ but as they are escaping, Odysseus tells Polyphemus ______

Answer 14

under his sheep;

his name.

Question 15

After they escape Polyphemus, _____destroys their ship.

Answer 15

Poseidon

Question 16

On_____, they see Circe’s home. Odysseus resists Circe’s power and she lets his men go. They stay for awhile but then leave.

Answer 16

Aeaea

Question 17

The ______ are cannibals and they eat Odysseus’s men.

Answer 17

Laestrygonians

Question 18

_____ determines that it’s safe, The men eat Circe’s ____ which turns them into ______.

Answer 18

Polites’
food;
pigs

Question 19

______ flees back to ____ .

Answer 19

Eurylochus;

the ship;

Question 20

Odysseus runs to Circe’s house with a plant that ______gave him.

Answer 20

Hermes

Question 21

In the Land of the Dead, Odysseus sees _____ and ______.

Answer 21

Anticlea, his mom;

Elpenor

Question 22

______ then tells Odysseus of his destiny.

Answer 22

Teiresias

Question 23

_____advises Odysseus to listen to the _____, so he is tied to a _____ and his men are not allowed to ____ him.

Answer 23

Circe;
Sirens;
mast;
untie

Question 24

After listening to the sirens, the ship must past through _______ and ________.

Answer 24

Scylla;

Charybdis

Question 25

Between Scylla and Charybdis, Odysseus chooses _____ and __of his crewmates are ____.

Answer 25

Scylla;
6;
eaten

Question 26

At the island of the Sun God, _____ persuades the crew to eat _____cattle

Answer 26

Eurylochus ;

Lord Helios’s ;

Question 27

After leaving the island of the Sun God.

When they leave for_____ a _______ kills them all.

Answer 27

Ithaca ;

thunderbolt ;

Question 28

At home now

Dressed as a ____, Odysseus finds _____ but does not _____ himself.

Answer 28

beggar;
Eumaeus;
reveal

Question 29

______ tells Telemachus to return home, but warns him that the _____ are waiting to_____ him.

Answer 29

Athena;
suitors;
ambush

Question 30

_____turns Odysseus back into his former self, and Telemachus thinks that Odysseus is _____.

Answer 30

Athena;

a god

Question 31

Odysseus tells Telemachus who _____ is and at first, he _____believe it.

Answer 31

he really;

doesn’t

Question 32

Oddy’s dog, _____ recognizes Odysseus, but he cannot do anything because he is _____.

Answer 32

Argos;

so old

Question 33

After Odysseus leaves, his dog, Argos _____.

Answer 33

dies

Question 34

Odysseus is _____ by the suitors but ____ defends him.

Answer 34

mocked;

Penelope

Question 35

_____ washes Odysseus’s feet and recognizes him from the _____.

Answer 35

Eurycleia;

scar on his leg

Question 36

The task for the suitors is to ________________________. No one is able to do it except the______
Odysseus shoots _____ in the _____ and accuses the other suitors for having _____ for the ____. __________ tries to save everyone and blame _____ but it doesn’t work.

Answer 36

string Odysseus’s bow and shoot an arrow through twelve ax-helve sockets;
the beggar;
Antinous;
throat;
contempt;
Gods;
Eurymachus;
Antinous

Question 37

________, _______ and _______ help Odysseus kill the suitors, who are also eaten by gadflies.

Answer 37

Telemachus, Eumaeus and Philoetius

Question 38

The maids are ordered to _____, except then they are ______.

Answer 38

dispose of the dead;

killed too;

Question 39

Penelope is ______ of Odysseus and tests him by telling him that _______. Odysseus is _____ and Penelope finally ________.

Answer 39

suspicious;
their bed was moved;
enraged;
believes that it is him