People
Study Guide Questions
Plot
Miscellaneous
100
King of Ithaca who disguises himself as a beggar
What is Odysseus
100
What sign from Zeus indicates that the gods are on Odysseus' side?
What is a thunder strike
100
What place did Odysseus return to?
What is Ithaca.
100
How many axes did the arrow have to shoot through?
What is 12 axes.
200
Woman who proposes an Archery contest, with marriage to her as the prize.
What is Penelope
200
What did Penelope take down when she realized that Odysseus wasn't coming back?
What is she took down the heavy bow that Odysseus left behind.
200
About how many suitors wanted to marry Penelope and take over Odysseus' fortune?
What is 100 suitors.
200
How did the men feel about not succeeding?
What is humiliation, shame, and embarrassment.
300
Inspires Penelope to challenge the suitors
What is Athena
300
What did Odysseus want to try?
What is to shoot his own bow.
300
Who was Odysseus first reunited with when he returned to Ithaca.
Who was his son Telemachus.
300
What were the two parts to the contest?
What is to bend the heavy bow and string it, and then shooting the arrow through the 12 axes.
400
One of Odysseus' most trusted servants whom he reveals his identity to.
What is Eumaeus
400

How did cowherd and swineherd recognize that the beggar was Odysseus?

What is the scar from the tusk wound that Odysseus got boar hunting on Parnassus.

400
What does everybody feel when Odysseus is handed the bow?
What is nervousness that Odysseus will succeed.
400
What did the first picture in our presentation represent?
What is Odysseus shooting the arrow through the 12 axes.
500
Suitor of Penelope's who ridicules Odysseus.
What is Antinous
500

What does Book 21 end with?

What is Odysseus and Telemachus preparing to fight the suitors

500
Where does the archery contest take place?
What is in a crowded hall.
500
How did the people feel about a beggar requesting to try the challenge?
What is They doubted the ability of the beggar and thought it seemed very impossible for him to do.
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