FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT THE ODYSSEY EXAM

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FREE AND STUDY GAMES ABOUT THE ODYSSEY EXAM

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-Guarantee passing score -100 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: 1. Find examples of dramatic Irony on p1035 and explain their significance

Answer:

The suitors don't know the beggar inspecting the bow is Odysseus, and thinks he is some bow dealer.Significance- Odysseus will take advantage of their unawareness and kill them

Question 2: How did Odysseus and his crew escape the Cyclops?

Answer:

They tied 3 sheep together and slung a man under each middle one

Question 3: Charybdis

Answer:

whirlpool

Question 4: What happened to Amphinomus?

Answer:

He was pierced/killed by a spear thrown by Telemachus from behind

Question 5: 2 enchantresses that detained Odysseus & kept him from returning home

Answer:

Circe of Aeaea and Calypso

Question 6: after land of dead

Answer:

they return to Circe's isl where she shows him the way & advice to avoid the siren Question 7: What quality of a hero does Odysseus demonstrate by addressing the Cyclops?

Answer:

Courage

Question 8: Helios

Answer:

sun god who gets Zeus to punish them after cattle gets eaten

Question 9: _____ is a swineherd that used to work for Odysseus.

Answer:

Eumaeus

Question 10: The Cyclops does not believe in the ___!

Answer:

Gods

Question 11: Myth

Answer:

traditional story that deals with supernatural beings, ancestors/heros; apeals to consciousness of people with cultural ideals

Question 12: Blind Prophet's prophecy

Answer:

if not selfish & sticks to goal- reach home with trouble & no ship/companions under strange sail, find men eating livestock & trying to take wife; Ody will make them atone in blood; sacrifice ram, bull & buck boar to Poseidon; hecatomb to gods- peace deat

Question 13: Telemachus thinks Odysseus is a _____

Answer:

God

Question 14: aside

Answer:

short speech delivered by an actor in a play- traditionally inaudiable to other actors, only audience hears

Question 15: where was Ody @ beginning of book

Answer:

Had just been w/ Calypso

Question 16: What did Athena do to Odysseus that shocked Telemachus?

Answer:

She makes Odysseus' cloak white, his tunic fresh, and look younger & lithe, unlike his beggar form.

Question 17: Eurylochus & Perimedes

Answer:

member of Ody's crew- tied down monsters in land of dead; Eurylochus got men to rebel & eat cattle in Helios' isl

Question 18: Who is Argus? Explain the significance of the brief account

Answer:

Argus is Odysseus' old dog who had been tossed out after he had become useless. This is significant since if Odysseus had been there, Argus would have been treated better even when he was old? shows Odysseus' belongings are not treated with as much respec

Question 19: Aeolus

Answer:

king of winds @ aeolia

Question 20: siren

Answer:

singing creatures who lure men into seas

Question 21: where telemachus journeyd to find father

Answer:

Pylos & Sparta

Question 22: Epic

Answer:

long narrative poem in an elevated style celebrating heroic achievements and treating themes of historical, religeous, or legendary significance

Question 23: What name does Odysseus give the Cyclops? Why?

Answer:

Nohbdy? to deceive anyone Polyphemus might call for help to? 'nohbdy hurt me'

Question 24: How Odysseus is considered prideful at the beginning

Answer:

By his introduction- "Men hold me formidable & guile in peace and war. This fame has gone abroad to the sky's rim."

Question 25: What does Eurymauchus offer Odysseus and why?

Answer:

He offers Odysseus "restitution of wine & meat consumed, and add each one, a tithe of 20 oxen with gifts of bronze and gold to warm your heart." In return for sparing their lives

Question 26: Penelope ___ in order to avoid marrying a suitor

Answer:

She weaved during day and unwove it at night for 3 years Question 27: Explain how the actions of Odysseus may be considered heroic (line 134-137)

Answer:

He was brave & he went to see the Cyclops with only 12 other men, and allowed the others to stay back.

Question 28: What is ironic about Eumaeus' meeting with Odysseus?

Answer:

Eumaeus has no idea that this beggar is actually his thought-to-be-dead master.