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The Odyssey 9-12 Test Flashcards

1
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6 headed monster

A

Scylla

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2
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Foil Of agamemnon

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Odyesseus

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3
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The person who picks who gets the golden apple

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Paris

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4
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What goddess aids Odysseus

A

Athena

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5
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Who is the king of mount olympus

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Zeus

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6
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How many Olympian gods are there

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12

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7
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God who tries to prevent Odysseus from getting home

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Poseidon

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8
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Who offers luck in battle to Paris for the golden apple?

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Athena

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9
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Who wrote the Odyssey

A

Homer

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10
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Who is Menelaus’s wife

A

Helen

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11
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Where is Odysseus trying to get after the war

A

Ithica

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12
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How many books/chapters are in the Odyssey

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24

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13
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If you see italics in the book, The Odyssey, what can you expect to read?

A

Epic Simile

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14
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How many heads does Scylla have

A

6

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15
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What does Odysseus put in his men’s ears to keep out the sound of the sirens?

A

Wax

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16
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What monster acts as a whirl pool

A

Charybdis

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17
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What is the name of the monster that sings to attract sailors

A

Sirens

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18
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What is the name of poseidon’s son

A

Polyphemus

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19
Q

Which sides wins the war

A

Greeks

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20
Q

Who creates the idea of the Trojan horse

A

Odysseus

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21
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Who is the most prized fighter for the greeks

A

Achilles

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22
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Who is the king of sparta

A

Menelaus

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23
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Who are the 2 princes of troy

A

Paris and Hector

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24
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Odysseus foil

A

Agamemnon or Athena

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25
Q

What is an epithet?

A

Character Description

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26
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Who is killed by his wife’s lover after returning home from Troy?

A

Agamemnon

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27
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Using the fathers name to associate

A

Patronymics

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28
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Who are the three goddesses involved in the judgment of Paris?

A

Athena, Hera, and Aphrodite

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29
Q

Intoxication fruit

A

Lotis

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30
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One eyed giant

A

Cyclops

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31
Q

King of Ithica

A

Odysseus

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32
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Wife of Agamemnon

A

Clytemnestra

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33
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Odysseus’s father

A

Laertes

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34
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Sees Odysseus in the under world and warns him about his wife’s faithfulness

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Agamemnon

35
Q

Odysseus’s mom

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Anticlea

36
Q

Grandson of Poseidon, king of phaeacians, entertains Odysseus and gives him richs and safe transports

A

Alcinous

37
Q

Blind singer of tales at phacia

A

Demodcas

38
Q

Son of Achilles, father of odyssues

A

Laertes

39
Q

Goddess, Daughter of atlas, detains Odysseus for 7 years on her island offering immortality if he stays

A

Calypso

40
Q

Turns Odysseus’s men into swine

A

Circe

41
Q

Island that Circe lives on

A

Aeaea

42
Q

Allies of troy, First people Odysseus meets, Gives ODysseus wine

A

Cicones

43
Q

City of the cicones

A

Ismarus

44
Q

Wealthy ithican who lends telemachus a ship to said to plyson

A

Norman

45
Q

God of sea, brother of Zeus, father of cyclops

A

Posiden

46
Q

Keeper of the winds and king of the island aeolia

A

Aeolus

47
Q

Leading member of ODysseus’s crew, leads them in the wrong direction

A

Eurylochus

48
Q

Giant canibals

A

Laestrygonians

49
Q

Messenger of the gods

A

Hermes

50
Q

King of laestrygonians

A

Antiphates

51
Q

Troy

A

Ilion

52
Q

Kills agithus

A

Orestes

53
Q

Bard of scheria

A

Demodocus

54
Q

Calypso

A

Keeps Odysseus captive for 7 years

55
Q

King of the laestrygonias

A

Antiphates

56
Q

Who kills patricless

A

Hector

57
Q

Who kills hector

A

Achilles

58
Q

Where do the laestrygonians live

A

lamus

59
Q

God who is angry at odyseusses crew

A

helious

60
Q

The name odysseus gives to the cylops

A

noman

61
Q

Foil of aresties

A

telemechus

62
Q

King of troy

A

Priam

63
Q

Where is Odysseus in book 1

A

Ogygia

64
Q

Where is Odysseus in book 9

A

Sheria

65
Q

Offers odysseus immortality

A

calypso

66
Q

Menelaus brother

A

Agamemnon

67
Q

Sent to convince calypso to let him go

A

hermes

68
Q

Who gives odysseus advice to get through the sirens

A

tyreses

69
Q

What is the place that make Odysseus loose lost of his crew

A

tranacia

70
Q

Who punishes Odysseus crew for eating the cattle

A

helios

71
Q

Fortified city

A

troy

72
Q

MOnsters that sing to the future

A

siren

73
Q

Next to charibis

A

Scylla

74
Q

Blind prohet

A

Tyreseus

75
Q

Offers Odysseus a herb to free him from Circe’s spell

A

Molly

76
Q

Name of the whirl pool

A

Charbis

77
Q

Taken from menoulous

A

Helen

78
Q

King of all of greece

A

agamemnon

79
Q

Place where elpenor dies

A

aeaea

80
Q

Queen of the gods

A

hera

81
Q

Term for italics

A

epic simile

82
Q

What goddess want to help odysseus

A

Athena

83
Q

King of scheria

A

Elsonous

84
Q
A

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