The Odyssey

The text says that "The Gods were watching him [Odysseus]...His misery touched the heart of" which God?

• Athene

• Zeus

• Hermes

• Poseidon

Where did Odysseus spent his first night back on Ithaca?

• On the beach

• with the shepherd boy's family

• in the palace

• in his swineherd's hut

Who helped Odysseus regain his throne? Check all that apply.

• Penelope

• Telemachus

• Eurycleia

• Eumaeus

How did Penelope know for sure that the beggar was truly Odysseus?

• She tricked him by asking to move the bed.

• She recognized him in his own royal clothes.

• Telemachus told her that is was his father.

• Eurycleia insisted that the beggar was Odysseus.

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• an error or mistake

• a short journey

• a peculiar person

• an extended journey or quest

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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