The Odyssey: Book 23

Only a few suitors survived the battle. 

• True

• False

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Why is this conflict different from his other struggles? 

• He can use his strength and might. 

• He must win his wife’s trust, and he cannot win it through battle or guile. 

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Odysseus proves his identity by describing details about their bed that only he would know. 

• True

• False

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Penelope has resolved her conflict. How does her solution show her to be well matched with Odysseus? 

• Penelope has quickly come up with a test to get Odysseus to reveal what he knows about their bed, which no one else would. This proves that she is as clever and cunning as he is and thus a good spouse for him. 

• Penelope is too distraught and fearful to take any action and waits for Odysseus to come up with a way to prove his identity to her.  

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Odysseus still needs to do one more thing for _____. 

• Zeus

• Athena

• Polyphemus

• Poseidon

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