The Odyssey Parts 1 and 2

Who keeps Odysseus prisoner for seven years?

• Penelope

• Athena

• Aphrodite

• Calypso

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What makes one forget one's homeland?

• Hermes' magical herb

• Odysseus's expensive wine

• Lotus blossoms

• air from a bag of wind

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Who punishes those who mistreat guests?

• Zeus

• Hermes

• Athena

• Calypso

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Why must Odysseus resist killing the Cyclops?

• Odysseus still has questions he wants answered

• the Cyclops knows too much

• the oracle told Odysseus to let the Cyclops live

• only the Cyclops can move the door

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Why do the other Cyclopes refuse to help the blinded Cyclops?

• They don't like him.

• They want his land.

• He says nobody is hurting him.

• Odysseus has bribed them.

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The blinded Cyclops is the son of

• Helios

• Athena

• Poseidon

• Zeus

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Odysseus puts wax in his men's ears to safely pass

• Scylla

• Charybdis

• the sirens

• the Laestrygonians

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Which of the following is a six-headed monster?

• Lampetia

• Tiresias

• Scylla

• Hermes

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After a month of storms leaves them hungry, Odysseus' men

• build a temple in hopes that the gods will help them

• try to kill Odysseus

• become cannibals

• kill and eat the cattle of Helios

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Where is Odysseus sailing from after ten years when his MANY adventures at sea begin?

• Ithaca

• Troy

• The coast of the Cicones

• The Land of the Lotus Eaters

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