Background
Characters in the Odyssey
Beginning of The Odyssey
Cyclops, Circe, and Calypso
Returning Home: End of the Odyssey
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Author of The Odyssey
Who is HOMER
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Odysseus's faithful wife
Who is PENELOPE.
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What Penelope must do if Odysseus has not returned by the time Telemachus has a beard.
What is REMARRY
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The father of the cyclops Polyphemus
Who is POSEIDON
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Who does Odysseus go to see first when he gets back to Ithaca?
Eumaeus, the swineherd. (either answer is okay)
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A long narrative poem about the adventures of a hero
What is an EPIC
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The birth of _____ was the proudest day of Odysseus's life.
What is TELEMACHUS, his son.
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How many years TOTAL was Odysseus gone?
What is 20--10 years fighting, 10 years coming home.
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Explain how Odysseus and his crew defeat the Cyclops.
They get him drunk, sharpen a stick, poke out his eye.
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How Odysseus is disguised when he reaches Ithaca.
What is AS A BEGGAR.
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Homer wrote two epics--one epic of war and one epic of the long journey. Name these two epics.
What is the ILIAD and the ODYSSEY
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Represents Odysseus's strength
Who is ATHENA
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How Penelope tries to buy time from the suitors and avoid choosing one of them.
What is WEAVE A SHROUD FOR HER HUSBAND.
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Odysseus's men escape the cyclops's cave by doing this
What is HIDING UNDER THE SHEEP
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Describe the task the suitors must try to complete to win Penelope's hand in marriage.
String Odysseus's bow, shoot an arrow through 12 axe handles.
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Explain the cause of the Trojan War.
What is HELEN OF TROY HAD AN AFFAIR WITH A GREEK KING.
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Represents Odysseus's weakness
Who is POSEIDON
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When the suitors say they are going to leave
When Penelope chooses to marry one of them.
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Zeus threatens to do this to Calypso's island if she doesn't release Odysseus
What is SINK HER ISLAND
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How the servant recognizes Odysseus
What is THE SCAR ON HIS LEG
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What is the Trojan Horse? What did it enable the Greeks to do?
A WOODEN HORSE; It allowed the Greeks to get into the city of Troy and win the war.
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What Circe does to Odysseus's men
What is TURNS THEM INTO ANIMALS
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How many of Odysseus's men are lost to Schylla and Charybdis?
What is ALL OF THEM
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Explain how Odysseus is immune to Circe's spell after she turns his men to animals.
HE EATS AN HERB GIVEN TO HIM BY HERMES.
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What Odysseus does to the suitors after he defeats them
What is KILLS THEM ALL.
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