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Calypso
Land of the Dead
On the Sea
Homecoming
Death at the Palace
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Why has Hermes arrived on Calypso’s Island
To tell Calypso to let Odysseus go home
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Who does Odysseus go to see in Hades?
Tiresias
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How will Odysseus be able to listen to the Siren’s song and survive?
He places wax in his ears
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What does Athena do to Odysseus as soon as he returns home? Why?
She disguises him as an old man to protect him from the suitors.
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How is Penelope's maid able to recognize Odysseus?
She recognizes a scar on his leg
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What is Odysseus doing when she first met him
Lying on the beach helpless
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Who does Odysseus go to see in Hades?
His mother
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Who is Scylla?
A three-headed sea monster
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Where is Telemachus returning from before he sees Odysseus?
He was searching for Odysseus
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What does the prophet forsee in the hall?
He saw blood dripping from the walls
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What does Calypso offer Odysseus if he stays?
Immortality
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What must Odysseus do in Hades?
Sacrifice a ram and ask for directions home
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Describe Charybdis
A whirlpool with teeth in the middle of the ocean
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How is Telemachus able to recognize his father?
Athena changes his appearance into a handsome man
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What plan does Penelope have to choose a suitor?
She was to marry the suitor who could string Odysseus's bow and send an arrow through the ax heads.
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What happens to Odysseus after he leaves the island
Poseidon cause a storm in order to punish him
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Where does the prophet tell Odysseus to go in order to get home?
Past Scylla and Charybdis
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Who all survives after the crew passes Scylla and Charybdis?
No one but Odysseus
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What does Antinous do to Odysseus to humiliate him?
He throws a foot stool at him which hits him on the back
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What happens to the maids who consorted with the suitors?
They were hanged
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Where does Odysseus arrive after leaving Calypso?
On an island with the Phaeacians
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What prophecy does Odysseus receive in Hades?
That he will experience great loss on the sea
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People sometimes use the expression caught between Scylla and Charybdis. What does it mean?
They have two bad options
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Who is Argos and what happens to him after he sees Odysseus?
Argos is Odysseus's dog and he dies after he sees him
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What is Antinous's father planning?
He is planning revenge for his son's death