Chapter 5
Who welcomed Odysseus when the entered the courtyard?
Argo, Odysseus's favourite dog
What did Odysseus dress like?
In the evening, who does Odysseus wait for in the hall?
What does carry as she entered the hall the next morning?
Odysseus's bow
What was inside the chest the servants were carrying after Penelope?
How does Argos' greet Odysseus?
The old dog wagged his tail and licked his master's hand.
He laid down and died.
What does Odysseus tell Penelope to make her wept?
How made the first attempt?
Telemachus
When the young men were unsuccessful, what does Antilochus suggest they all do?
They should put of the trial for another day.
What did Odysseus do as he sat in the hall?
He watched all the young men who sat eating at the great table in the hall.
What does Odysseus decide to do after watching the young men?
He decided to see if any of the young men were kind and generous?
How does Penelope tell him to find out he was telling the truth?
She asked him to describe what he was wearing.
How did the men and Penelope react when Odysseus wanted to try?
The young men laugh however Penelope said that the beggar can try if he was successful she would not marry him but give him a present.
What does Telemachus tell his mother to do when Odysseus has his try?
Telemachus told his mother to leave the hall.
What do the young men give Odysseus?
Some gave him crusts and bones.
Who stuck him hard on the shoulder?
Antilocus
How does the washer woman recognize Odysseus?
As she washed his legs she noticed the long scar of a wound which he had received out hunting before he was married.
After Odysseus was successful, who does Odysseus kill first?
Antilochus, shot him in the throat
What does Odysseus ask Eurycleia to make?
a bed
How was Penelope going to decide which of the 12 men to marry?
She promised to marry any one of the young men who could bend the bow and shoot and arrow through the 12 axe-heads.
Where does Penelope tell Eurylecia to make a bed and take the bed from?
How did Odysseus respond to Penelope's suggestion to bring out the bedstead? Why did the prove to Penelope that he was truly Odysseus
The bed was made from a standing tree. No man could move that bed unless he first cut down the tree trunk.