Odyssey Part 2

What does Odysseus order Telemachus to do when Odysseus gives him a signal?

• reveal Odysseus' identity to Penelope

• remove armor and weapons from the great hall

• leave Ithaca and set sail for Pylos

• string Odysseus' great bow

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In the graphic novel the author uses a splash to emphasize an important part of the story. Which text from the excerpts of the Odyssey does the author adapt and present in the splash?

• Tiresias' advice to Odysseus and prophecy about the cattle of Helios

• Odysseus encountering the spirit of his mother in the Land of the Dead

• Elpenor's explanation of how he arrived in the Land of the Dead before Odysseus

• Odysseus performing a sacrifice of a black lamb to call forth the spirits of the dead

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What does this epic simile compare?

But the man skilled in all ways of contending,

satisfied by the great bow's look and heft,

like a musician, like a harper, when

with quiet hand upon his instrument

he draws between his thumb and forefinger

a sweet new string upon a peg; so effortlessly

Odysseus in one motion strung the bow.

• a bow string to sweet music

• Odysseus to a musician

• a musician to a harper

• Odysseus to an archer

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What is one meaning of the Latin root -sim-?

• sit

• seem

• stand

• sound

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...Salt tears

rose from the wells of longing in both men,

and cries burst from both as keen and fluttering

as those of the great taloned hawk,

whose nestlings farmers take before they fly.

Which of the following best describes what this epic simile is saying about the cries of Telemachus and Odysseus?

• They are wild and free

• They are perfectly natural

• They are loud and emotional

• They are sweet and melodious

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What is being compared in this simile?

The stool he let fly hit the man's right shoulder

on the packed muscle under the shoulder blade-

like solid rock, for all the effect one saw.

• a stool to a rock

• a man to a blade

• a muscle to a rock

• a shoulder to a muscle

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"...I armed myself

long ago against the frauds of men,

impostors who might come- and all those many

whose underhanded ways bring evil on!..."

What does this statement tell us about Penelope?

• Why she let suitors into her home

• Why she let him sleep alone

• Why she remained faithful to him

• Why she tested him

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"Not for all the whole treasure of your fathers,

all you enjoy, lands, flocks, or any gold

put up by others, would I hold my hand.

There will be killing till the score is paid."

What does this quote tell you about the character of Odysseus?

• He is unforgiving.

• He is prosperous.

• He is tolerant.

• He is modest.

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Why does Telemachus think they will not be successful against the suitors?

• Odysseus is too old.

• There are too many suitors.

• The suitors are too clever and daring.

• Odysseus does not have any good weapons.

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How do you know Telemachus doubts Odysseus is his father?

• "I am that father whom your boyhood lacked/ and suffered pain for lack of. I am he."

• "I swear you were in rags and old, / and here you stand like one of the immortals!"

• "This is not princely, to be swept/ away by wonder at your father's presence."

• Then, throwing/ his arms around this marvel of a father/ Telemachus began to weep

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