the odyssey

The Odyssey begins at the end of

• The Trojan War
• The Civil War
• The Greek War

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Odysseus' wife has been

• waiting for 20 years
• raising their son
• fighting off suitors
• all are correct

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Odysseus has angered

• Poseidon
• Athena
• Hades
• Zeus

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The Lotus Eaters enticed the men to

• fight
• stay in their land
• turn into pigs
• mutiny against Odysseus

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Odysseus tricked the cyclops by

• stealing his sheep
• drinking his wine
• telling him a false name
• hiding in his cave

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The cyclops was the son of

• Athena
• Circe
• Artemis
• Poseidan

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By bragging about his name, Odysseus displayed the fatal flaw of

• cowardice
• gluttony
• pride
• envy

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He was the blind teller of tales who first recorded The Iliad and The Odyssey

• Circe
• Homer
• Telemachus
• the Muse

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She loved Odysseus but allowed him to leave when Zeus demanded it.

• Scylla
• Charybdis
• Penelope
• Calypso

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He received no help from his relatives because he was awkward with words after Odysseus gave a fake name.

• Circe
• Charybdis
• Teiresias
• Polyphemus

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