Odyssey Test Review

Larger-than-life, but still human, brave, intelligent, valiant, faithful, able to handle any situation, usually on a quest, often aided by “the gods”

• Protagonist
• Epic Hero
• Anti-Hero
• Antagonist

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CCSS.RL.8.10

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Credited with “writing” The Odyssey •Lived around 900-700 BC? •A blind minstrel who wandered from place to place reciting poems

• Homer
• Aristotle
• Socrates
• Harper Lee

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CCSS.RL.8.10

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CCSS.RL.8.5

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God of the Sea

• Zeus
• Hades
• Hecuba
• Poseidon

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How does Zeus punish Odysseus and his men?

• He reanimates the meat in their stomachs
• He hits their ship with a thunderbolt
• He tells Poseidon about them
• He curses them.

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 What effect does eating the lotus flower have on Odysseus’ men?

• They forget their homeland and want to stay on the island forever
• They become focused on their mission to return to Ithaca
• They lose their sight
• They are turned into pigs

What do Odysseus and his men do to the Cyclops?

• Sing Polyphemus a soothing song and steal his cheese
•  Take Polyphemus's best ship and return to Ithaca
• Make Polyphemus swear a god's oath for peace
• Get Polyphemus drunk and stab out his eye

How do Odysseus and his men finally escape the Cyclops' cave?

• Odysseus attaches his men to the underbelly of the sheep to escape when Polyphemus lets the sheep out of the cave
• Odysseus convinces Polyphemus to move the boulder away from the door for him
• They dig their way out under a pile of dung
• They are rescued by the other Cyclopes who hate Polyphemus

Odysseus' wife is...

• Penelope
• Athena
• Scylla
• The muse

The suitors anger Odysseus because

• They try to marry his wife, eat his food, and plot to murder his son
• They take all of his cheese
• They kicked his dog
• They make fun of him

How does Penelope test that he is really Odysseus, and not a god in disguise?

• Asks him to describe something only they know
• Makes a prayer to the gods to see how he will react
• Tells their housemaid to move their bed (which is impossible)
• Shows him good hospitality incase he is a god