The war that Odysseus and his men are involved in right before the beginning of "The Odyssey".
What is the Trojan War?
100
This term describes a long narrative poem about gods and heroes.
What is an epic?
100
The main character of the epic.
Who is Odysseus?
100
This happened as soon as Odysseus left Troy.
What is went to Ismarus and lost 6 benches worth of men?
100
This is the name of the animal that died after waiting 20 years for Odysseus to return.
Who is Argus?
200
The length of time the Trojan War took.
What is 10 years?
200
This term is used to describe the subject or main idea of a selection.
What is the theme?
200
The wife of the main character.
Who is Penelope?
200
This happened when Odysseus and his men went to the land of the Lotus Eaters.
What is three men ate the flower, never wanted to leave, and had to be tied up?
200
This is the reason the other suitors were angry with Antinous for throwing a stool at the "beggar".
What is he could have been a god?
300
The gift that was given to the city of Troy after the Greeks were "defeated".
What is the Trojan horse?
300
This is a descriptive phrase repeatedly attached to a name.
What is an epithet?
300
The cyclops that eats Odysseus' men.
Who is Polyphemus?
300
This happened when the men sailed past the Island of the Sirens.
What is Odysseus tied himself to the mast and put bees wax in his mens' ears?
300
This is the trick that Penelope uses to not marry for 7 years.
What is weave and un-weave a burial blanket?
400
The winners of the war.
Who are the Greeks?
400
This story begins "in the middle of things" or ______________________, which is a flashback.
What is "in media res"?
400
The god that is enraged at Odysseus for harming his son.
Who is Poseidon?
400
This is what Tiresius told Odysseus what would happen to his men.
What is they would all die if they ate the cattle of the sun god?
400
This is the challenge Penelope gave the suitors, that whoever won she would marry.
What is string Odysseus' bow, and hit the bullseye after the arrow goes through 10 axes?
500
The reason that the Trojan War began.
What is Paris of Troy stealing Helen of Sparta from her husband?
500
"as a blacksmith plunges a glowing ax or adze / in an ice-cold bath and the metal screeches steam / and its temper hardens — that's the iron's strength — / so the eye of the Cyclops sizzled round that stake!" (9.438-41) is an example of an epic _____________.
What is simile?
500
The suitor that Odysseus kills first.
Who is Antinous?
500
This is why Odysseus was unable to stop his men from eating the cattle.
What is the gods put him to sleep?
500
This is the final test Penelope gives Odysseus to see if it really is him.