Odyssey 1
Odyssey 2
Odyssey 3
Odyssey 4
100

What is the name of Odysseus' home?

Ithaca

100
What is "The Odyssey" about?
The hero Odysseus attempting to return to Ithaca after the Trojan War
100
The protagonist and hero of the poem is?
Odysseus
100
The "much-enduring" wife of Odysseus and the patient mother of Telemachus is named________.
Penelope
200
Odysseus' son. A mere child when his father left for the Trojan War.
Telemachus
200
Odysseus left Penelope bound for what city?
Troy
200
Which plant makes the sailors forget their desire to return home?
The Lotus Plant
200
Why does Odysseus blind Cyclops rather than kill him?
Only Cyclops can move the boulder blocking the cave.
300
Why does Poseidon despise Odysseus?
Odysseus blinded his son.
300
Of what did Odysseus’s mother die?
Grief
300
Who transforms Odysseus’s sailors into pigs?
Circe
300

Circe warns that men who listen to the songs of the Sirens will what? 

What is want to listen to their songs forever and never leave. 

400
How is Odysseus able to listen safely to the Sirens’ song?
He has his men bind him to the ship’s mast.
400
Odysseus does not warn his crew about Scylla because he thinks they would
. panic and endanger the entire ship
400
What does Tiresias warn Odysseus not to harm on his voyage?
The cattle of the Sun
400

The two goddesses with whom Odysseus has extended affairs (develops a close relationship with) 

Circe and Calypso

500

What evidence is there in the final chapter that Odysseus has been "reborn"/changed from the beginning of the journey? 

Odysseus is more patient and humble by the end. The evidence is that he refuses to reveal his identitiy prematurely to the suitors or lose his cool with Penelope when she does not trust at first. 

500

What is Odysseus's final test? 

Penelope wants to know if he is really him so she asks him a quention about their bed. 

500

Explain how hubris is what led to great hardship for Odysseus and his men?  

His desicion to taunt the Cyclops and reveal his identity would put him in conflict with Poseidon. 

500

What excuse did Penelope make to the suitors (once Telemachus was grown) for why she should delay remarrying? 

What is she needed to weave a burial shroud for Odysseus. 

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