Odyssey Book I

Which of the gods was missing from the meeting on Olympus?

• Aphrodite

• Athena

• Zeus

• Poseidon

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Who does Homer speak too/of at the VERY beginning of the Book?

• Odysseus

• Muse of epic poetry

• Athena

• Calypso

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Who "longed to marry" Odysseus and kept him in her "vaulted cave"?

• Penelope

• Athena

• Calypso

• None of these

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What is the name of the island Odysseus is currently stranded on?

• Ithaca

• Oggyia

• Ogygia

• Aeaea

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How long has Odysseus been absent from Ithaca?

• 2 years

• 5 years

• 9 years

• 10 years

• 12 years

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Which god pleads to Zeus at the divine council to intervene and assist Odysseus to get home?

• Hermes

• Poseidon

• Athena

• Hera

• Helios

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WHO SAID - "It is for Odysseus that my heart is wrung, the wise and unlucky Odysseus, who has been parted so long from all his friends and is pining on a lonely island far away in the middle of the seas".

• Telemachus

• Penelope

• Athena

• Antinous

• Calypso

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Where does Athena send Telemachus?

• Sparta

• Pylos

• Mycenae

• Troy

• Thebes

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Which old friend of Odysseus is Athena disguised as when she appears to Telemachus?

• Mentes

• Nestor

• Eumaeus

• Mentor

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"How easy it is for that gang there to think of nothing but music and songs. They are living free off another man - a man whose white bones are rotting in the rain upon some distant land." Who is saying this and who do the "bones" belong to?

• Athena speaking of Odysseus

• Telemachus speaking of Odysseus

• Penelope speaking of Odysseus' father Laertes

• Athena speaking of Aegisthus

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