The Odyssey: Books 11-12

After Odysseus left Aeaea the FIRST time, where did he go? Who told him to go there? (Check two)

• Calypso

• The Land of the Dead

• Ithaca

• Thrinacia

• Circe

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What is the blind prophet's name?

• Odysseus

• Tiresias

• Polyphemus

• Calypso

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How does Odysseus lure the spirits/ghosts out from the Underworld?

• He sacrifices one of his men to the gods.

• He calls out to Hades and asks to speak to Tiresias.

• He makes a blood sacrifice of a black ram and a goat.

• He whistles for them to come out.

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Who was the FIRST shade/ghost that appeared in front of Odysseus in The Land of the Dead?

• Anticlea - his mother

• Elpenor - his shipmate

• Calypso - his lover

• Tiresias - the blind prophet

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What happened to Elpenor?

• He fell off Circe's roof and broke his neck while drunk.

• He was a pig for so long that he could not turn back into a man.

• He fell off a ship and drowned because he was drunk.

• He was killed by a god.

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Who was the SECOND shade/ghost that appeared in front of Odysseus in The Land of the Dead?

• Anticlea - his mother

• Elpenor - his shipmate

• Calypso - his lover

• Tiresias - the blind prophet

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What was shocking about BOTH the shades/ghosts that Odysseus saw in The Land of the Dead?

• Odysseus learned that they had become evil zombies.

• Odysseus found out they were killed by the gods to punish him.

• Odysseus didn't know either of them were dead.

• Odysseus fought with them in the Trojan War.

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Which of the following is NOT one of the instructions in Tiresias's prophecy to Odysseus?

• Take an oar to a place where people have no knowledge of the sea, and stick it in the earth there.

• Make sacrifices to Poseidon -- a bull, a ram, and boar.

• Do not eat Helios's cattle while on Thrinacia.

• Find Elpenor's body on Circe's island and bury it.

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When Odysseus and his men returned from the The Land of the Dead, who did he have a proper burial for?

• Telemachus - Odysseus's son

• Eurylochus - captain of one of Odysseus's ships

• Hades - god of the Underworld

• Elpenor - one of Odysseus's men

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According to Circe, what creatures did she say Odysseus and his men would encounter after they left Aeaea the second time? (Check three)

• Hades

• Sirens

• Scylla

• Charybdis

• Cyclopes

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