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Chapter 1
Chapter 2 & 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
100
This is the location where Odysseus is stuck at the start of chapter 1.
Where is Calypso's Island?
100
This is the Phaeacian Princess.
Who is Nausicaa?
100
This is what King Alcinous agrees to give to Odysseus
What are 52 ships and men?
100
This is the name of Odysseus father.
What is Laertes?
100
This God gives Odysseus a bag of winds.
Who is Aeolus?
200
These were given to Odysseus from Calypso before he sailed away from her island. (word and meaning)
What are provisions? - (supplies and food)
200
This is the reason that Athena told Nausicaa that she needed to go to the river.
What is to do her laundry? (because she is a slob and no one will want to marry her)
200
This is the man who entertains during the feast. (name and title)
Who is Demodocus (the blind minstrel)?
200
This is a literary device that allows the reader to learn about past events.
What is a flashback?
200
This is how Odysseus survives the attack of the Laestrygonians.
What is by parking outside of the inner harbor.
300
This God created a major storm that wrecked the raft Odysseus had built on Calypso's Island and left him floating in the sea.
Who is Poseidon?
300
This is who Nausicaa tells Odysseus to ask for help once he reaches the castle.
Who is Arete? (the queen, Nausicaa's mother, wife of Alcinous)
300
This is the reason that Odysseus gets angry during the celebration.
What is the challenge made by Euryalus about Ody's athleticism.
300
This is what happens to Ody's men in the land of the Lotus Eaters.
What is they enjoy the drugs and forget they want to go home.
300
This is the man who led the original scout mission to Circe's palace.
Who is Eurylochus?
400
These two Goddesses help Odysseus reach the land of the Phaeacians after Poseidon's storm. (name and way they helped)
Who is Ino with the magic scarf? AND Who is Athena by calming the winds?
400
This is the powerful man who agrees to help Odysseus find his way home.
Who is King Alcinous?
400
This is the gift given to Odysseus by Euryalus as an apology.
What is a sword?
400
This is what happens when Odysseus decides to stick around to meet Polyphemus
What is two men are eaten, and the rest are trapped?
400
This is how Hermes helps Odysseus defeat Circe.
What is with a magic root and a plan?
500
Hard Question: During Poseidon's storm in chapter one THIS is the reason that Odysseus wishes he would have died in the war.
Because then he would have been remembered as a hero.
500
This is the disguise that Athena takes as she helps Odysseus find his way to the palace.
What is a young woman?
500
Hard question: The reason that Alcinous starts to get suspicious about their mysterious guest.
Because Odysseus starts to cry every time Demodocus sings about the Trojan War.
500
Hard Question: Describe the three steps to escaping the cave of Polyphemus.
1. get him drunk 2. stab his eye 3. sneak out on rams
500
This is an authors method that warns the reader of events that may unfold in the future. (Hint: Elpenor falling off the roof.)
What is foreshadowing?