Characters
Who is Poseidon's son?
Polyphemus, The Cyclops
Who is Odysseus's wife?
Penelope
Why do the suitors want to marry Penelope?
To become the King of Ithaca
Who said this? "Pitiful man. The gods must truly despise you, and I will not go against their will."
King Aeolus
True or false: A central idea for The Odyssey would be a plot summary of what happens in the text.
False! A central idea must never include text-specific language.
Who persuades Zeus to allow Odysseus to return to Ithaca?
Athena
Who is Odysseus's and Penelope's son?
Telemachus
What competition does Penelope host to decide on a new husband?
The person who can string Odysseus's bow and shoot an arrow clean through all twelve axheads
Who is the "bewitching queen" and "Radiant goddess"?
Circe
When a character doubts himself/herself/themselves, the character is experiencing...
Internal conflict
Who leads the campaign to kill Telemachus?
Antinoos
Who turned Odysseus's men into pigs?
Circe
Why is Odysseus in a disguise upon finally returning to Ithaca?
Odysseus needs time to devise a plan to overcome the suitors and see which ones have remained loyal.
Who said this? "Let me make it plain, then: even if fifty such bands of men crowded around you, screaming for your blood, you would emerge victorious. Now, rest."
Athena
Some might describe Odysseus as arrogant. People who do this are ____________ Odysseus (fill in the blank with a literary element word)
Characterizing
Who is the messenger who delivers messages for the Gods?
Hermes
Who owns the island of Ogygia?
Calypso
Who is Odysseus's dad and Telemachus's grandfather?
Laertes
Who said this? "I'd rather be plowing a furrow, or the lowest servant in some peasant king's employ, than a lord among these empty souls."
Achilles
When you are using a quotation to provide direct evidence from the text, what must you SPECIFICALLY include at the END of the evidence?
The line or page number
Who gives Odysseus a veil to prevent him from drowning after he escaped from Polyphemus?
Ino
Answer, IN ORDER: (1) Who has six heads and twelve legs? (2) Who sings seductive songs that lure men to their deaths? (3) Who is a whirlpool that drown people to their death?
(1) Scylla, (2) Sirens, (3) Charybdis
As we know, Odysseus slays all the suitors by the end of the text. Name at least one of the omens the suitors saw earlier in the text to signal this impending doom.
Two eagles/hawks fighting each other, or the old man predicting the return of a "lion"
Which TWO characters warned Odysseus and his men not to harm the cattle of Helios?
Circe and Teiresias
What is a universal, arguable message found in a story?
A central idea