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The Odyssey Questions with All Correct Answers Which god hates Odysseus? - Answer-Poseidon because he blinded Polyphemus. Which god helps out Odysseus? - Answer-Athena Why does Homer refer to the Muse in the first line? What is this called? - Answer-To inspire his storytelling. This is the ...

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Which god hates Odysseus? - Answer-Poseidon because he blinded Polyphemus.

Which god helps out Odysseus? - Answer-Athena

Why does Homer refer to the Muse in the first line? What is this called? - Answer-To
inspire his storytelling. This is the INVOCATION.

What is Odysseus' tragic flaw at the BEGINNING of the "Cyclops" episode? - Answer-
curiosity

What virtue does Polyphemus NOT exhibit to his guests? - Answer-hospitality

Odysseus' major epic hero trait during the Cyclops episode is - Answer-intelligence

What is Odysseus' tragic flaw at the END of the Cyclops episode? - Answer-excessive
pride/arrogance (taunting the Cyclops and telling him his real name)

How and why does Athena disguise Odysseus? - Answer-Athena disguises him as an
old, homeless man so he can surprise the suitors at his house.

Who are the two "leaders" of the suitors? - Answer-Antinous and Eurymachus

Which suitor does Odysseus kill first and how? - Answer-Odysseus kills Antinous first
with an arrow through the neck.

What does Eurymachus say to save his life? - Answer-Eurymachus pins all the blame
on Antinous, pleads everyone else's freedom, and promises to repay what they took.

How does Penelope use their bed to test if Odysseus is really her husband? - Answer-
Penelope tells a servant to move the master bed. This was a bed that Odysseus built
himself from the trunk of an olive tree that would be impossible for anyone to move, but
only Odysseus would know that.

Ithaca - Answer-Odysseus's home and kingdom

This story is based on Odysseus's return from the ________ . - Answer-Trojan War

Odysseus's son - Answer-Telemachus

, One of Odysseus's enemies? (a god) - Answer-Poseidon

One of Odysseus's enemies? (cyclops) - Answer-Polyphemus

Who turned Odysseus' men into pigs? - Answer-Circe

How does Odysseus win the battle with the Cyclops? - Answer-Tricks Polyphemus with
a false name and wine, then blinds him and escapes under the bellies of sheep.

What does Circe turn Odysseus's men into? - Answer-Pigs

What is Odysseus disguised as when he returns to Ithaca? - Answer-a beggar

Which god gives Odysseus the most trouble? - Answer-Poseidon

What weapon is used in the challenge Penelope presents the suitors with? - Answer-
bow and arrow

A mild danger, the lotus, is to be avoided because anyone who eats it: - Answer-wishes
to stay in the land of the lotus forever

An epic is best defined as a: - Answer-long narrative poem about a hero

Why does Odysseus blind the Cyclops rather than kill him? - Answer-Only Cyclops can
move the boulder blocking the cave


Who composed the Odyssey? - Answer-Homer

Where did Odysseus go to fight the war? - Answer-Troy

Who is the king to whom Odysseus tells his story beginning the major flashback in Book
9? - Answer-Alcinous

Who is the king of Ithaca? - Answer-Odysseus

King of the gods - Answer-Zeus

goddess of wisdom, skills, and warfare - Answer-Athena

Odysseus' father - Answer-Laertes

Blind prophet who advised Odysseus - Answer-Tiresias

Creatures whose songs lure sailors to their deaths - Answer-Sirens

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