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Name of the hero in the Odyssey
Odysseus
The bed is built around a(n) _________________________.
olive tree
The suitors ________________ the "beggar" while he tries to string the bow.
mock
What was Telemachus job before the competition?
remove the weapons
Penelope decides to hold a ________________________ to figure out who she will marry.
contest
The ___________________ are not faithful to the house of Odysseus.
maids
The ___________________ had taken over Odysseus house and trying to marry Penelope.
suitors
The war lasted _____________________ years.
10
Odysseus helped end the Trojan War by coming up with the idea of the
Trojan horse
Odysseus is from (and is, therefore, trying to return to) ___________.
Ithaca
The story shows Odysseus' return __________ years after leaving home for war.
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One-eyed giants who are shepherds.
Cyclops
Beautiful nymph-goddess who keeps Odysseus for her pleasure for seven years
Calypso
Messenger of the Gods
Hermes
Turned some of Odysseus' men into swine.(
Circe
People who feed Odysseus' men a plant that makes them forget about home.
Lotus Eaters
The ruler of all the Gods in Olympus
Zeus
One-eye Cyclops who ate Odysseus' men.
Polyphemus
The God of the seas who delayed Odysseus with fierce storms.
Poseidon
The aged father of Odysseus.
Laertes
T/F Odysseus disguises himself as a beggar when he reaches Ithaca
True
T/F Odysseus’ plan for the suitors is to kill them
True
T/F Odysseus’ men escape from the Cyclops disguised as lions.
False
T/F Odysseus hears the sirens song and is fed to the fish.
False
T/F Odysseus is the only one who has ever strung his bow.
True
T/F It is difficult to string Odysseus' bow.
True
T/F Odysseus makes it back to Ithaca.
True
T/F Polyphemus is the name of the cyclops that imprisons Odysseus and his men
True
T/F The cyclops cries when Odysseus reveals his name since a wizard had foretold this would happen.
True
T/F Odysseus commands Polyphemus, to tell anyone who asks that it was Odysseus the one who blinded him
True
T/F The Cyclops were farmers, as the poem reads, “they neither plough nor sow by hand.”
False
T/F Odysseus wishes to stay with Calypso but is forced to leave.
False
T/F What is a long, narrative poems about the adventures of a national hero?
an epic poem
Who was the blind poet who wrote The Odyssey?
Homer
. How did the suitors bring dishonor to Odysseus home? (name 3 ways)
a. They drank his wine and ate his food, tried to kill his son and tried to seduce and marry his wife.
What is Odysseus’ weaknesses?
a. hubris, or pride
Which god has hindered Odysseus’ journey home?
Poseidon
What is xenia?
A code of hospitality
Which of the following themes unites both "Iliad" and "Odyssey"?
Characters’ hubris in thinking themselves superior to the gods
Which of the following elements helped the rhapsodes remember and recite the poem?
Memorized passages, or “set pieces”
When did the Greek alphabet first appear?
8th century BCE


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