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Question 1: What does the Cyclops ask the men?
Answer:
Who are you? What brings you here?
Question 2: How did Odysseus behave during the day?
Answer:
I long for home, long for the sight of home.
Question 3: For how long has Odysseus been away from home? Where had he been?
Answer:
Fighting in the Trojan War for 10 years.
Question 4: Where is Odysseus's home?
Answer:
Ithaca
Question 5: How did she die?
Answer:
From a broken heart
Question 6: Who makes sailing difficult for him?
Answer:
Posiedon god of sea
Question 7: What is the Cyclops's name with whom Odysseus has a conflict?
Answer:
Polyphemos
Question 8: What did the Cyclops put at the entrance to the cave?
Answer:
A large rock
Question 9: What does Odysseus tell the Cyclops?
Answer:
Nobdy
Question 10: How many men did Odysseus send to check out the Lotus Eaters?
Answer:
2
Question 11: What does Odysseus sacrifice to Teiresias?
Answer:
black lamb
Question 12: What happened to Odysseus's men on the way home?
Answer:
They died
Question 13: What feeling do the Lotus plants produce in those who ingest them?
Answer:
They forget of their homeland.
Question 14: What does Athena beg her father? Who is her father?
Answer:
To help Odysseus return home safely & Zeus.
Question 15: Who is Odysseus's patron goddess?
Answer:
Athena
Question 16: What did Odysseus do at night? Why?
Answer:
He lay with her for she compelled him.
Question 17: Who is the blind prophet?
Answer:
Teiresias
Question 18: How many survivors will remain?
Answer:
Odysseus
Question 19: According to Teiresias, who will cause Odysseus trouble? why?
Answer:
Circe & Charybdis
Question 20: Who is Odysseus's enemy, and why is he mad at him?
Answer:
Posiedon because he blinded his son (Cyclops).
Question 21: Who are the Muses?
Answer:
A daughter of Zeus, credited with divine inspiration.
Question 22: What does Circe persuade Odysseus to do?
Answer:
Go to the Land of the Dead
Question 23: Who is sent to deliver the message from Zeus to free Odysseus?
Answer:
Athena
Question 24: Who were some of the dead?
Answer:
Elpenor, his mother,others that are being punished
Question 25: What is Odysseus's son's name, and where does he live?
Answer:
Telemachus lives in Ithaca.
Question 26: Where does Odysseus want to sail?
Answer:
To Scheria
Question 27: What is Odysseus's mother's name?
Answer:
Anticleia Question 28: What does Odysseus do to the men to prevent them from eating the Lotus?
Answer:
He tied them down.