Vocab
Hero Cycle
Summary
Questions
100

What is the definition of the word bracing? 

What is refreshing, awakening to the senses, energizing?

100

What is the step of the Hero's Cycle that best describes Book 12? 

What is step six or tests, allies, and enemies?

100

Who's cattle is Odessyus wanned not to eat? 

Who is the Sun god? 

100

How does Odysseus react to the news that he will have to sacrifice six of his men?

He protests that there must be another way.

200

What is the definition of the word crags? 

What are steep or precipitous rugged rocks? 

200

How many tests are heroes usually presented with in the rising action of the Hero's Journey? 

What is three? 

200

Who is the lady who warns Odessyus of the obstacles he must face? 

Who is Circe? 

200

What does Odysseus make the men swear before he relents and allows them to land on Helios’s island?


That they will not harm the cattle and only eat the food they have with them.

300

Use the word beetling in a sentence. 

Beetling-Projecting, overhanging.


300

Name one step in the Hero's cycle. 

Ordinary World, call to adventure, refusal of the call, meeting the mentor, crossing the threshold, test allies and enemies, approach, ordeal death and birth, reward, the road back, resurrection, return with the elixir. 

300

What is the first obstacle Odessyus is faced with when he sets out from Aeaea? 

What are Sirens? 

300

How does Odysseus survive the attack from Zuse after leaving Helios’s island? 

He is able to hold onto a piece of wreckage from his ship and row it to Calypso's island.  

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