The Iliad
The Odyssey Beginning
The Odyssey Travels
Odyssey Homecoming
Class Facts
100

Who do the Greeks fight in The Iliad?

Trojans

100

How many years total was Odysseus gone from Ithaca?

20 years

100

Name at least one god who delays Odysseus's return home.

Poseidon / Circe / Calypso

100

What is the name of Odysseus' wife and son? 

Penelope and Telemachus

100

What is Mr. Doyan's first name? 

Cletus

200

Who is the hero of the Greeks?

Achilles

200

What is the name of the addictive plant that makes Odysseus' men lose thoughts of home. 

Lotus

200

What does Odysseus tell the Polyphemus, the cyclops his name is?

Nobody

200

Who disguises Odysseus as a beggar?

Athena

200

What state is Mr. Doyan from?

Indiana

300

Who is the hero of Troy?

Hector

300

What is the name of Odysseus' home? 

Ithaca

300

Who are the giant cannibals that eat some of Odysseus' men and destroy the ships with boulders? (Spelling counts!)

Laestrygonians

300

What weapon does Odysseus use to kill the suitors? 

A bow.

300

What room number is this? 

100

400

Who wrote The Iliad and The Odyssey? 

Homer

400

Where does Odysseus' story start? 

Calypso's Island

400

Circe turns the man into pigs. Odysseus avoids this fate by eating what? 

Holy moly!

400
Eurymachus promises to pay Odysseus back with wine, meat, twenty oxen, and gifts of _______ and _______.

bronze, gold 

400

True or false? The glasses I am wearing now are the same kind of glasses I wore at the start of the semester.

False.

500

Where is the first place Odysseus and his men go after they leave Troy?

Cicones

500

Hermes brings two items with him when he goes to tell Calypso to let Odysseus go. What are the items? 

A wand and sandals

500

Who is the god of the wind? 

Aeolus

500

Who is the suitor, called the ringleader, that Odysseus kills first?


Antinous

500

How many students are in this class? 

This answer changes! 

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