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The setting of the The Odyssey.

ancient Greece

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The Odyssey is about

The hero Odysseus attempting to return to Ithaca after the Trojan War

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The protagonist and hero of the poem is?
Odysseus
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The "much-enduring" wife of Odysseus and the patient mother of Telemachus is named________.
Penelope
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Which goddess often assists Odysseus and Telemachus, and speaks up for them in the councils of the gods on Mount Olympus?
Athena
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Odysseus' son. A mere child when his father left for the Trojan War.
Telemachus
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Odysseus left Penelope bound for what city?
Troy
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Which plant makes the sailors forget their desire to return home?
The Lotus Plant
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Why does Odysseus blind Cyclops rather than kill him?
Only Cyclops can move the boulder blocking the cave.
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What trait of an epic hero does Odysseus show when he ties his men to the ram?
Cleverness
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Why does Poseidon despise Odysseus?
Odysseus blinded his son.
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Of what did Odysseus’s mother die?
Grief
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Who transforms Odysseus’s sailors into pigs?
Circe
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Circe warns that men who listen to the songs of the Sirens will
be killed/eaten by the Sirens.
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Odysseus saves his crew from the Sirens’ song by
plugging his men’s ears with beeswax
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How is Odysseus able to listen safely to the Sirens’ song?
He has his men bind him to the ship’s mast.
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Odysseus does not warn his crew about Scylla because he thinks they would

panic and endanger the entire ship

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What does Tiresias warn Odysseus not to harm on his voyage?
The cattle of the Sun
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The two goddesses with whom Odysseus has extended affairs
Circe and Calypso
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In Penelope’s archery contest, through how many axes must Odysseus fire his arrow?
12
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An epic is best described as a?
Long Narrative Poem
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Who is Argos?
Odysseus’s old dog
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What does Athena do during the battle with the suitors?
makes some of the arrows miss Odysseus
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Penelope’s final test to prove her husband’s identity is to
order their bed moved.
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Odysseus believes no one but a god could move his bed because
he built from a tree still rooted in the ground.