Odyssey Study Guide

Question 1

Odysseus’ home

Answer 1

Ithica

Question 2

The phaeacian king who hosts Odysseus

Answer 2

Alcinous

Question 3

The only god that didnt pity odysseus

Answer 3

Poseidon

Question 4

The cyclops find it by odysseus

Answer 4

Polyphemus

Question 5

The messenger of the gods also known as the giant killer

Answer 5

Hermes

Question 6

The flower fruit that can make men forget their home

Answer 6

Lotus

Question 7

Father of Odysseus

Answer 7

Laertes

Question 8

Prominent suitor who is the arch-enemy of telemachus

Answer 8

Eurymachus

Question 9

Inprisionsd odysseus’s men in a pigsty before becoming his lover

Answer 9

Arce

Question 10

Member of Odysseus’s crew who is encountered in the underworld

Answer 10

Elpenor

Question 11

Young daughter of alcinous who is tall and beautiful as a goddess

Answer 11

Nausicaa

Question 12

Sucked down salt water exposing her interior vortex then vomited it up seething over like a cauldron over a blazing fire

Answer 12

Charybdis

Question 13

Odysseus had to be tied down to listen to their songs

Answer 13

Sirens

Question 14

The god whose cattle was consumed by odysseus’ crew

Answer 14

Hyperion

Question 15

Giants who pelted rocks down on the ships of Odysseus’ expedition

Answer 15

Laestrygonians

Question 16

Person who claimed responsibility for the cyclops’ suffering

Answer 16

Nohbdy

Question 17

Where Odysseus’ journey home began

Answer 17

Troy

Question 18

Nymph, envied by the gods for living with a mortal, who delays Odysseus for seven years

Answer 18

Calypso

Question 19

The kind animal cared for by Eumaeus

Answer 19

Pig

Question 20

Herb with black roots and white blossom given to Odysseus by hermes

Answer 20

Moly

Question 21

Goddess who protects and helps Odysseus

Answer 21

Athene

Question 22

Creature with a dreadful bark, twelve feet, six scrawny necks and triple rows if fangs

Answer 22

Scylla

Question 23

Father if zeus

Answer 23

Cronus

Question 24

King of pylos; the Gerenian Charioteer visited by Telemachus

Answer 24

Nestor

Question 25

Wife of Odysseus

Answer 25

Penelope

Question 26

Husband of helen and host of Telemachus

Answer 26

Menelaus

Question 27

Blind Theban prophet from whim Odysseus sought advice in hades

Answer 27

Teiresias

Question 28

Gave Odysseus a leather bag containing the boisterous energies of wind

Answer 28

Aeolus

Question 29

Beautiful wife of Menelaus

Answer 29

Helen

Question 30

Relationship of Telemachus to Odysseus

Answer 30

Son

Question 31

God who is cuckolded by his wife Aphrodite and Ares

Answer 31

Hephaestus

Question 32

The people who were raided during Odysseus' first stop on his return from the war

Answer 32

Cicones

Question 33

Whom does Homer ask for help in telling his tale?

Answer 33

The muse

Question 34

How long has Odysseus been gone?

Answer 34

20 years

Question 35

What is Odysseus doing when we first meet him?

Answer 35

Telling his tale

Question 36

Which god is most against Odysseus

Answer 36

Poseidon

Question 37

Who is thw goddess that helps Odysseus?

Answer 37

Athena

Question 38

Which god is sent to twll Calypso to release Odysseus?

Answer 38

Hermes

Question 39

Where does Odysseus go after leaving Clypso?

Answer 39

Phaecians

Question 40

Who is the king if the Phaecians?

Answer 40

Alcinous

Question 41

What happens to the ken who ate the lotus?

Answer 41

They loose track if time and the desire to go home

Question 42

Why does Odysseus call himself Nohbdy?

Answer 42

To trick the cyclops

Question 43

What is the cyclops's name?

Answer 43

Polyphemus

Question 44

Who is the father of the Cyclopes?

Answer 44

Poseidon

Question 45

Where does Circe live?

Answer 45

Aeaea

Question 46

What does circe turn Odysseus's into?

Answer 46

Animals

Question 47

What does Hermes give Odysseus to protect him from Circe?

Answer 47

Magic Herbs

Question 48

Whom does Odysseus seek in the underworld?

Answer 48

Tiresias

Question 49

What are the sirens?

Answer 49

Deadly mermaids who sing sailers to their death

Question 50

How do the men face and overcome the Sirens' songs?

Answer 50

Put wax in their ears and tie Odysseus up

Question 51

What is the Charybdis?

Answer 51

Big monster

Question 52

What is Scylla?

Answer 52

Mostwr with 6 heads

Question 53

What choice must Odysseus make?

Answer 53

Sacrifice six men or risk his whole crew

Question 54

What happens as the ship passes between "a rock and a hard place"

Answer 54

Sux men were eaten

Question 55

Who convinces the men to disobey Odysseus? Why?

Answer 55

Eurylochus | They were hungry

Question 56

What is Helios's threat to the gods?

Answer 56

He threats the gods to not have his cattle

Question 57

What happens to Odysseus men when they try to eat the cattle?

Answer 57

They all die

Question 58

Where does Odysseus swim to?

Answer 58

calypsos island

Question 59

What dies Athena advise Odysseus to do?

Answer 59

To remain a secret until he has a plan to kill the suitors

Question 60

Who is Odysseus's faithful swineherd?

Answer 60

Eumaeus

Question 61

Where does Telemachus go in search of news of his father?

Answer 61

Sparta

Question 62

What does Eumaeus call Telemachus?

Answer 62

Master

Question 63

How does Athena transform Odysseus

Answer 63

To an old beggar

Question 64

What happens when Odysseus seed his dog?

Answer 64

The dog dies and Odysseus cries

Question 65

What js Odysseus's dog named?

Answer 65

Argus

Question 66

How does Eurycleia recognize Odysseus?

Answer 66

His scars

Question 67

Athena says the suitors will_____?

Answer 67

Die

Question 68

What impossible task does Penelope propose for the suitors?

Answer 68

String Odysseus's bow and shoot it clean through twelve arrows

Question 69

Whom does Odysseus trust to help him defeat the suitors?

Answer 69

Telemachus and Eumaeus

Question 70

How does Odysseus prove his true identity?

Answer 70

He knew the secret about the bed

Question 71

Who does Odysseus kill first and | why?

Answer 71

Atonius hecause he was the ring leader

Question 72

What happens to the disloyal maids?

Answer 72

They were killed

Question 73

How does Athena help Odysseus win other penelope?

Answer 73

Gives him beauty

Question 74

What was special about Penelope and Odysseus' bed?

Answer 74

Built into an olive tree