The Odyssey by Gillian Cross Chapters 7-9

How did Athene get Nausicaa to rescue Odysseus?

• She went to Nausicaa and threatened her life if she did not help Odysseus.

• She appeared to her as one of her close friends and told her to go down to the river to do some washing.

• She disguised herself as Hermes and told her that she would be richly rewarded if she helped Odysseus.

• She went to Nausicaa and told her that it would be considered a great favor by the gods is she helped Odysseus.

Tags

RL 6.1

How did Odysseus prove himself to be a great athlete in the court of King Alcinous?

• He threw the largest, heaviest discus farther than anyone else´s attempt.

• He beat the best boxers.

• He beat the best wrestlers.

• He outran the fastest runner and bested all the archers.

Tags

RL 6.1

How did Telemachus learn that his father Odysseus was not dead?

• Athene came to him in a dream and told him that Odysseus was still alive.

• He was given a vision of Odysseus returning to Ithaca.

• He went to the land of the dead and could not find his father Odysseus among the spirits.

• King Menelaus told him that he learned from the Old Man of the Sea that Odysseus was alive and on the island of Calypso.

Tags

RL 6.1

Who met Odysseus on the beach of Ithaca and warned him not to go to his palace alone?

• Poseidon

• Hermes

• Athene

• Zeus

Tags

RL 6.1

Odysseus went to his swineherd Eumaeus who did not recognize him. Why didn´t his swineherd recognize Odysseus?

• Athene had disguised himself as an old beggar.

• He was adorned with fancy clothes given to him by the Phaecians and his swineherd was not used to seeing him so finely attired.

• He was disguised to look like the god Hermes.

• He had been gone for so many years that he had changed so much he did not look like himself.

Tags

RL 6.1

Where did Telemachus meet his father for the first time since he left to fight in the war with Troy?

• at Odysseus´s palace

• in Sparta

• on the beach of Ithaca

• in the swineherd Eumaeus´s hut

Tags

RL 6.1

How did Penelope decide she would choose her next husband?

• She would choose the suitor who could pull Odysseus´s sward from a large stone in the center of the palace.

• She would choose the suitor who could string Odysseus´s great bow and shoot an arrow through the loops of ten axes.

• She would choose the suitor who was last standing in a great tournament of boxing.

• She would choose the suitor who won a marathon race.

Tags

RL 6.1

How did Odysseus prove to Eumaeus the swineherd his true identity?

• He removed his disguise and took on his true appearance.

• He called his old hunting dog over to him who recognized his scent.

• He parted his rags to show the long, silvery scar on his leg.

• He won a wrestling match with the strongest suitor in the palace.

Tags

RL 6.1

What did Odysseus do with the suitors who had eaten his food and disrespected his palace?

• He killed all of them.

• He killed nearly all of them, and only allowed a few to escape.

• He agreed to let them live if they gave him gold and herds of oxen to replace what they had taken.

• He put them in ships and sent them back out to sea to experience all the hardships he had endured while he tried to get back to Ithaca.

Tags

RL 6.1

What was required of Odysseus to make peace with Poseidon?

• He must pluck out his own eyes and blind himself like he did to Poseidon´s son the cyclops.

• He must live the life of a beggar.

• He must move inland and never set out to sea again.

• He must travel inland with an oar over his shoulder until someone mistakes it for a winnowing fan and sacrifice to Poseidon there.

Tags

RL 6.1