Exam 1 // Quiz 1 & 2 Flashcards
When Telemachus lands on the island of Pylos, he finds the king and his people already gathered and offering sacrifice to this God.
Posiedon
Who says these words to Odysseus? “Strip off those clothes and leave your craft for the winds to hurl, and swim for it now, you must, strike out with your arms for landfall there, Phaeacian land where destined safety waits.”
Ino
or Leucothea, Book 5: 377
In the slaughter of Penelope’s suitors, as depicted in your book, this suitor is the first to be killed and is shot in the throat by Odysseus’ arrow.
Antinous
“This is a shroud for (. . . . .,) for that day/ when the deadly fate that lays us out at last will take him down./I dread the shame my countrywomen would heap upon me,/yes, if a man of such wealth should lie in state/without a shroud for cover.” In your text selections from The Odyssey, who is the shroud being prepared for in these lines?
Laertes
An old and wise king demonstrates proper duty to his guests Telemachus and Athena in Book 3 of The Odyssey. This same king, described as “the lucid speaker of Pylos,” also plays a significant role in The Illiad, showing wisdom and patience in efforts to mediate the heated argument between Achilles and Agamemnon. Who is this old, wise, patient king?
Nestor
“But if you only knew. . .what pains are fated to fill your cup. . .you’d stay right here, preside in our house with me and be immortal.” Who says these words?
Calypso
True or False:
The character Gilgamesh is described as having been created out of clay by a God, and thus he is presented as half human and half God and therefore is an “immortal.”
False
True or False:
Enkidu is separated from the animals through having sex with the harlot Shamhat, and becomes human through eating bread, drinking beer, washing himself, and rubbing his body with oil.
True
True or False:
When Gilgamesh hears that Enkidu is coming to the city to prevent the king’s oppression of Uruk’s people, he declares: “I will challenge him./Let me shout out in Uruk: ‘I am the mighty one!’/Lead me in and I will change the order of things;/He whose strength is mightiest is the one born in the wilderness!”
False
True or False:
As a young man in Corinth, Oedipus sought to know his destiny through consulting the Oracle, and then Oedipus escaped his terrible destiny by relocating to Thebes.
False
True or False:
After the death of Laius, king of Athens, his widow Jocasta marries Oedipus when he wins her and her city by solving the Sphinx’s riddle, not realizing that the stranger is her own son whom she and Laius had abandoned to die on a mountain as a baby.
True
True or False:
Oedipus wrongly accuses his uncle and brother-in-law Creon of conspiring against him with blind prophet Teiresias, who immediately confesses to the plot when questioned by Oedipus.
False
