Characters
Who is the man traveling home from the Trojan War?
Who is Odysseus?
What happens to those who eat the Lotus in the land of the lotus-eaters?
What is losing their desire to go home?
Who is the King of the Gods?
Who is Zeus?
How many men did Odysseus sacrifice to Scylla?
What is six?
What is Odysseus disguised as when he returns home?
What is an old beggar?
Who is the son of Poseidon?
Who is Polyphemus?
How do Odysseus's men avoid the sirens song?
Who is the God of the sea and earthquakes?
Who is Poseidon?
What name does Odysseus give Polyphemus when they first mean?
What is Nobody?
What sign was sent by a God after the contest and why?
What is Zeus sending a clap of thunder to show his approval?
Who is the son of Odysseus and Penelope?
Who is Telemachus?
What competition must the suitors compete in?
What is stringing Odysseus's bow and shooting it through twelve axe heads?
Who is the God of the underworld?
Who is Hades?
How did the Gods answer Odysseus's prayer on Helios's island?
What is making him fall asleep?
What is Odysseus's and Telemachus's plan to deal with the suitors?
What is disguise as a beggar, hiding all the weapons, keeping two stowed away, and killing them all at a feast?
Who saved Odysseus from his captor and helped him get to the land of the dead?
Who is Circe?
How did Odysseus and his men escape the cyclops's cave?
What is getting him drunk, stabbing his eye, nd sneaking out under his sheep?
Who is the goddess of war and wisdom who assists Odysseus throughout the story?
Who is Athena?
Who is King Alcinous so he will help him get back to Ithaca?
How does Penelope delay her marriage to one of the suitors?
What is weaving a death shroud for Odysseus and unweaving it each night while the suitors slept?
Who held Odysseus hostage on her island?
Who is Calypso?
Who was the first person to discover who Odysseus was after he returned home?
Who is Telemachus?
Who is the God that owns immortal cattle?
Who is Helios?
What three people did Odysseus meet in the Underworld?
Who is his mom (Anticlea), one of his men (Elpenor), and Tiresias the prophet?
How does Penelope initially react to Odysseus's return, why?
What is untrusting and suspicious because it has been twenty years?