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Odyssey Context
The Journey Home
100
The group of people who fight over Odysseus's wife, Penelope, are...?
Suitors.
100
What is the name of the person who gets Odysseus to go to the Land of the Dead?
Who is Circe
100
Who wrote "The Odyssey"?
What is Homer?
100
How long did it take for Odysseus to get home?
20 years.
200
Who is the beast Odysseus thinks he can defeat, but that Circe says it cannot be killed?
Scylla.
200
Who disguised Odysseus as a beggar?
Who is Athena.
200
A long poem about a hero on his/her long journey.
What is an epic?
200
Who gave Odysseus a bag of winds?
What is Aeolus?
300
What is the monster that swallows the ocean?
Charybdis.
300
What is the swineherd's name who Odysseus visits to tell his adventures and problems to?
Who is Eumaeus.
300
The Odyssey begins after what war?
The Trojan War.
400
What is the name of the Cyclops Odysseus pokes in the eye?
Polyphemus
400
Who is the son of Odysseus that is gonna help him fight the suitors?
Who is Telemachus
400
What does the vocabulary word profusion mean?
What is having enough
500
Who is the suitor that was the most abusive to Odysseus's wife and home? He also planned to kill Telemachus.
Antinous.
500
What was the name of the king who gave Odysseus the bags of winds?
Who is Aeolus
500
What is the theme of The Odyssey?
What is guest to host relationship.