Odyssey- Part 2

Question 1

What is Part 2 of The Odyssey about?

Answer 1

Odysseus’s return home

Question 2

How long has Odysseus been away from home?

Answer 2

20 years (10 war, 10 journey home)

Question 3

What occurs after Odysseus tells the Phaeacians his story?

Answer 3

Phaeacians sail him home in a vessel

Question 4

What has occurred while Odysseus has been away?

Answer 4

suitors overrun Odysseus’s palace and enjoying themselves while Penelope suffers

Question 5

What are the suitors planning to do to Telemachus?

Answer 5

kill him before he can inherit Odysseus’s lands

Question 6

Where does Telemachus go to Sparta and Pylos?

Answer 6

to see what he can learn about his father’s fate

Question 7

Where does Telemachus go to learn about his father’s fate?

Answer 7

Sparta and Pylos

Question 8

How does Athena help Odysseus when he lands on Ithaca?

Answer 8

fills him in as to what happened with Penelope, suitors, and Telemachus, disguises him as beggar and directs to Eumaeus (swineherd)

Question 9

What does Athena disguise Odysseus as?

Answer 9

beggar

Question 10

What form did Athena appear in?

Answer 10

tall woman

Question 11

What does Athena tell Odysseus?

Answer 11

to reveal his identity to Telemachus and devise the plan to bring down the suitors

Question 12

What does she do to Odysseus?

Answer 12

transforms him into a more polished, taller new version of himself

Question 13

How does Telemachus respond to Odysseus upon seeing him for the first time with his new appearance?

Answer 13

thinks he is a god, pleads for mercy

Question 14

How Telemachus react when Odysseus tells him he is father?

Answer 14

believes he is lying, still in awe of transformation from beggar to young person

Question 15

What is the nickname used for Athena?

Answer 15

Hope of Soldiers

Question 16

What did the Phaeacians give Odysseus after they sailed him home to Ithaca?

Answer 16

bronze, gold, and woven things

Question 17

Where are the gifts the Phaeacians gave Odysseus?

Answer 17

hidden in a wall by gods’ will

Question 18

Why does Telemachus doubt Odysseus’s plan?

Answer 18

Believes that gods won’t pay much attention to their specific human affair

Question 19

Why does Odysseus think his plan will work?

Answer 19

Believes Athena and Zeus as her father will help them

Question 20

What does Odysseus tell Telemachus to do if Odysseus is made fun of?

Answer 20

Hold back anger

Can plead with them to stop

Question 21

What does Odysseus tell Telemachus to do with all the weapons?

Answer 21

Store them away when Athena gives Odysseus who will give Telemachus the sign

Question 22

What excuse is Telemachus to tell the suitors?

Answer 22

• Weapons old and not as great

- might kill each other using weapons when drunk

Question 23

What must Telemachus put aside?

Answer 23

2 broadswords, 2 spears, and 2 oxhide shields for Odysseus and Telemachus’s own use

Question 24

What must Telemachus keep silent about?

Answer 24

Odysseus’s identity

Question 25

Why must Telemachus keep silent about Odysseus?

Answer 25

Odysseus and Telemachus alone must figure out how bad things are at the palace

Question 26

Who does Odysseus meet on the way to town?

Answer 26

His old dog Argus he trained when Argus was just a puppy

Question 27

What is Argus doing now?

Answer 27

Sitting on top of a pile of dung

Question 28

What does Argus do when he sees Odysseus?

Answer 28

He is excited and attempts to wag his tail. He has no more strength to go to his master.

Question 29

How does Odysseus respond to Argus?

Answer 29

He wipes a tear from his cheek but doesn't let Eumaeus see.

Question 30

How is Argus treated now compared to how he was treated before?

Answer 30

Treated terribly now | Before taken on many hunts

Question 31

What is Eumaeus's view on slavery?

Answer 31

Slaves need to be told what to do or they will not have the drive to do anything.

Question 32

What does Argus represent?

Answer 32

- Loyalty | - Ithaca needs Odysseus

Question 33

What happens at the end of "Argus?"

Answer 33

Argus dies

Question 34

Who is Odysseus confronted by when he enters his home?

Answer 34

Antinous

Question 35

What does Antinous do when Odysseus enters?

Answer 35

Accuses him of being a dirty beggar

Question 36

What does Odysseus accuse Antinous of?

Answer 36

Being mean for not giving him a cuts of bread when he was getting fat on food from someone else's house

Question 37

What does Antinous do in reaction to Odysseus's comeback?

Answer 37

Throws a stool at him

Question 38

How does Odysseus react to being hit by a stool?

Answer 38

Makes speech in front of all men cursing Antinous to die before he is married

Question 39

When Odysseus makes his speech, how do the suitors react?

Answer 39

A young man says to take pity on Odysseus because he might be a disguised god

Question 40

Does Penelope like Antinous?

Answer 40

No (believes he is the worst of l the bad suitors)

Question 41

Who is Penelope talking to about disapproving Antinous an pitying Odysseus?

Answer 41

Eurynome, housekeeper

Question 42

Who does Penelope ask Eumaeus to bring?

Answer 42

The beggar

Question 43

What does Penelope want to know from the beggar?

Answer 43

Background- who he is, where he's from

Question 44

How does Odysseus reply to Penelope's initial question?

Answer 44

He compliments Penelope on her flawless beauty

Question 45

How does Penelope avoid choosing a suitor?

Answer 45

Weaves and unweaves a cloak for Laertes

Question 46

How long does Penelope's weaving trick last for?

Answer 46

3 entire years, 4 year doesn't work

Question 47

Who discovers what Penelope is doing?

Answer 47

Maid

Question 48

What does Odysseus tell Penelope about Odysseus?

Answer 48

He will come home in one day's time

Question 49

What is the challenge Penelope issues the suitors?

Answer 49

Shoot one of Odysseus's arrows through 12 arrow sockets

Question 50

What does Odysseus do bête shooting?

Answer 50

Examines it to see what has changed about it

Question 51

After Odysseus completes the challenge, what occurs?

Answer 51

He tells Telemachus to join his side to help fight the suitors

Question 52

Who does Odysseus kill first?

Answer 52

Antinous, with a bow and arrow

Question 53

Why was death surprising to Antinous?

Answer 53

He was surrounded by his friends with stores of food and wine (festivities)

Question 54

How do the men react wen they realize Odysseus has returned?

Answer 54

They are terrified

Question 55

Who tries to save everyone?

Answer 55

Eurymachus

Question 56

What does Eurymachus do?

Answer 56

Tries to convince Odysseus that Antinous was the ringleader | Now that he is dead, the other suitors will just repay Odysseus in food and treasure

Question 57

Who does Odysseus kill second?

Answer 57

Eurymachus

Question 58

Who kills Amphinomus?

Answer 58

Telemachus

Question 59

What are all the suitors compared to after Odysseus has killed them all?

Answer 59

Fish caught fresh from the sea, flopping around still

Question 60

How did Penelope ensure that Odysseus was truly Odysseus?

Answer 60

Tested him with bed, makes him furious about not letting him sleep in the own bed Odysseus so painstakingly carved (secret between Odysseus and Penelope)

Question 61

How does the last epic simile relate to Odysseus's journey?

Answer 61

Like meeting Scylla, Charybdis, and the Sirens