The Odyssey Book 12

What monsters will Odysseus and his men encounter first, according to Circe?

• Shades
• Sirens
• Scylla 
• Charybdis

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How is Scylla described physically?

• Giant Dolphin monster

• Twelve dancing legs and six long necks

• 20 heads and six legs

• Giant whirlpool monster

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Who is Charybdis?

• Whirlpool monster

• 20 legged, six headed monster

• Greek God of Winds

• Singing monster who draws in sailors through song

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Ever heard of the saying "stuck between a rock and a hard place?" What difficult choice does Odysseus have to make in this chapter?

• Putting wax in his ears or his mens

• Sailing North or South

• Staying with Circe or returning to Ithaca

• Sailing between Charybdis or Scylla

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What did Zeus do in response to the men eating a cow?

• Threw lightning bolts and destroyed Odysseus ship, killing all of his men. Woah.

• Nothing, he was surprisingly okay with It.

• Sunk his ship with help from Poseidon

• Order Charybdis to drag down Odysseus's ship, killing all of his men.

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At the end of Book 12, where did Odysseus end up?

• Ithaca

• Back at Circe's island

• Calypso's island

• Helius's island

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man of Odysseus’s crew; killed in an accident

• Scylla

• Charybdis

• Elpenor

• Sirens

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How does Elpenor die?

• falls off a roof

• gets eaten by a Cyclops

• drowns at sea

• burns alive in the Land of the Dead

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Whose island is Elpenor on when he dies?

• The Island of Circe

• The Island of Calypso

• The Island of Helios

• The Island of Cycopes

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Circe tells Odysseus that in order to survive the Sirens he must do what?

• put beeswax in his men’s ears, tie himself to the mast, and instruct his men to not untie him

• cut off his ears and kill his men

• capture the Sirens and drown them

• force his men to listen to the Sirens, and hide in the ship and wait for it to pass

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