The Odyssey Part 1

Why does most of the Odyssey, Part 1, qualify as a flashback?

• Homer interrupts the story of Odysseus's journey home by having Odysseus tell Alcinous of earlier events

• Homer opens the narrative with an invocation to the Muse of epic poetry.

• In early scenes, Homer hints at the dangers Odysseus will face in future episodes of the epic.

• Homer begins the adventures of Odysseus in medias res

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In the Odyssey, Part 1, what ancient Greek value does Odysseus most clearly show with these words to Alcinous?

Men hold me Formidable for guile in peace and war: This fame has gone abroad to the sky's rim

• admiration for sincerity

• admiration for cunning

• admiration for peacemaking

• admiration for modesty

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What danger to Odysseus's men do the Lotus-Eaters pose in the Odyssey, Part 1?

• Familiarity with the Lotus-Eaters is dangerous because eating the Lotus will make the men forgetful.

• Familiarity with the Lotus-Eaters is dangerous because they are cannibals

• The Lotus-Eaters are dishonest and may deliberately mislead the crew about the route home.

• The Lotus-Eaters may deliberately cause the winds to subside

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Which of these quotations from the Odyssey, Part 1, best illustrates qualities typical of an epic hero?

• Now, by the gods, I drove my big hand spike / deep in the embers, charring it again, / and cheered my men along with battle talk / to keep their courage up: no quitting now

• . I rather dwelt on this part of the forecast, / while our good ship made time, bound outward down / the wind for the strange island of Sirens

• In the next land we found were Cyclopes, / giants, louts, without a law to bless them.

• We beached her, grinding keel in the soft sand, / and waded in, ourselves on the sandy beach.

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In the Odyssey, what quality for which Odysseus is famous is most clearly illustrated when he tells the Cyclops that his name is Nohbdy?

• He is courageous

• He is an effective leader.

• He is trained for battle.

• He is clever

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In the Odyssey, Part 1, why does Odysseus blind the Cyclops rather than kill him in his sleep?

• Odysseus's men convince him that Poseidon will curse them all if they kill the Cyclops

• Odysseus is moved by compassion for the foolish Cyclops.

• Odysseus and his men need the Cyclops to roll aside the huge stone that blocks the cave's entrance.

• Odysseus and his men lack the physical strength to kill the giant

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In which of these episodes from the Odyssey, Part 1, does Odysseus lose all his men?

• The Cyclops

• The Lotus-Eaters

• The Cattle of the Sun God

• The Sirens

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At the end of the Cyclops adventure in the Odyssey, Part 1, what does Polyphemus do that affects future events in the epic?

• He destroys Odysseus's ship.

• He prophesies that Odysseus will visit Hades.

• He begs his father Poseidon to curse Odysseus.

• He tells Odysseus that he will chase him back to Ithaca.

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What heroic trait does Odysseus reveal in the Odyssey, Part 1, when he devises a plan to listen to the Sirens' song and yet escape destruction?

• faith in the gods

• loyalty to those he leads

• curiosity about the world

• generosity to others

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By definition, what makes the Odyssey an epic?

• It is a long narrative poem featuring real people and based on actual historical events

• It is a long narrative poem that is important to a nation's cultural identity and features a hero

• It is a long dramatic poem that includes supernatural elements and features long journeys

• It is a long lyric poem that expresses a speaker's strong emotions about actual events.

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