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100
The men eat this, which makes them lose their memory.
lotus fruit
100
Circe turns the men into pig because ________________.
What is they displayed poor manners at her table?
100
Odysseus met this family member in the Underworld.
His mother.
100
The men were forbidden to kill ______________.
cows (or cattle)
100
I am one of the three women who Odysseus comes upon in the sea.
Princess Nausicaa
200
How do the men put Polyphemus to sleep?
They offer him wine.
200
What are some reasons King Aeolia and his wife do not leave the city?
He has married his sons to his daughters. They have all they need on the island. They hear great stories from others who come to the island.
200
The men wonder who _________________ go to the Underworld before them.
Elpenor
200
Odysseus did this in order to make sure his men obeyed orders.
He stayed awake.
200
After explaining his adventures to King Alcinous, Odysseus ___________.
sleeps
300
This is how Odysseus and his men escape Polyphemus.
They hold on to the underbellies of the sheep as they leave the cave.
300
Odysseus is given a bag of _______________ from King Aoelia.
What is winds?
300
Teiresias the Oracle fills Odysseus in on this major event that is going on at home (Ithaca).
The men want to marry his wife Penelope.
300
Who saves Odysseus?
Calypso
300
Odysseus dresses like a beggar and first visits this friend.
the pig-man (Eumaeus)
400
The biggest difference between the gods and humans is __________________.
mortality (or immortality)
400
Anticdote to Circe's curse.
What is a white moly flower?
400
Odysseus sees three beautiful women while his men see ________________ as they go past the Sirens.
three screeching, scrawny vultures
400
Penelope tells the sutiors that Odysseus will...
return home soon.
400
________________ suggests that the suitors compete by stringing Odysseus's bow and hitting a target.
Telemachus
500
Odysseus and his men attack Polyphemus with a spear, gouging his _________________.
eye
500
Odysseus is swayed to stay with Circe for a _________.
year (She originally asked him to stay a month.)
500
Odysseus has to get past this creature in order to survive.
Scylla (and Charybdis)
500
Calypso offers to make Odysseus __________.
immortal
500
What does the pig-man know that Telemachus does not know?
The beggar is Odysseus.