Odyssey Books 13-16

What is the Cyclops’s curse on Odysseus?

• Odysseus never gets home
• If he does get home, make it be a long time and a difficult journey and he loses all his men
• If he does get home, it will be with a different ship and things will be a mess on Ithaca
• All of these

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Odysseus is retelling his story to King Alcinous in a

• Flashback
• Memory
• Montage
• Personification

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How long does it take Odysseus to travel from Phaeacea to Ithaca?

• One night

• One week

• One month

• One year

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In Book 13, why doesn't Odysseus recognize Ithaca?

• He has been gone so long that the landscape has changed.

• Athena creates a mist around him, making all seem unfamiliar.

• Ithaca has been enchanted by Zeus.

• He has simply forgotten what his homeland looks like after such a long absence.

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In Book 13, how does Athena disguise Odysseus so that he may travel around Ithaca in secret?

• as a blacksmith

• as a sailor

• as a beggar

• as a God

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In Book 13, how does Athena disguise Odysseus so that he may travel around Ithaca in secret?

• as a blacksmith

• as a sailor

• as a beggar

• as a God

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In Book 14, what does Eumaeus ask the disguised Odysseus not to do?

• speak of his lost master's imminent return

• make fun of his profession

• sit at his dining table

• anger the gods in any way

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What is happening to Eumaeus's swine?

• They are multiplying uncontrollably.

• The suitors are eating them.

• They are being attacked by dogs.

• They are dying from the plague.

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In Book 15, where does Telemachus go as soon as he lands in Ithaca?

• Eumaeus's home

• Artemis's shrine

• the royal palace

• a mountaintop to make a sacrifice to Athene

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In Book 15, what does Theoclymenus ask Telemachus to do?

• send word to his mother that he is alive

• grant him passage on his ship

• ask his father for a pardon

• intervene with Athene

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