Upon first reaching Ithaca, Athena tells Odysseus to reveal his identity only to his swineherd, ____________________.

Athena tells Telemachus that the suitors plan to ____________ .

Once Odysseus reveals his identity to _________________________ in the swineherd's house, they cry tears of joy at their reunion.

Telemachus informs Odysseus that there are over _____________ in the palace of Ithaca.

Odysseus enters Ithaca and he sees an old hound dog on a dung heap outside the palace. It is ____________ who recognizes his master's voice immediately.

The story of the dog outside the palace, who waits twenty years for his master's return, and then dies, symbolizes ________________.

Since Odysseus appears to be a mere beggar when he first enters the palace at Ithaca, the suitors ___________________ him.

Odysseus believes two of the suitors, ___________________, to be particularly rude.

Penelope asks the beggar if he has any news of _________________________.

Though the beggar says Odysseus is on his way home, Penelope has _____________________.

Since Penelope has decided she must now marry one of the suitors, she has decided to hold ________________________________.

When Penelope goes to retrieve Odysseus' bow, she drops to her knees and ___________________________.

In order to win the contest, one must bend and string the bow, then shoot an arrow through ______________________ sockets. Penelope will marry the suitor who can do this.

While the suitors try to compete the archery task given to them by Penelope, Odysseus finds Eumaeus and _________________________.

Once Odysseus finds servants who have remained loyal to him all these years, he reveals his identity by showing them a ______________ he got boar hunting in Parnassus

In the great hall, the suitors at first refuse to let Odysseus try to string the bow since he still looks like a beggar. Odysseus must remind them of the Greek tradition of __________________________ and insists that they must let him try to string the bow.

When Odysseus manages to string the bow and shoot the arrow, Zeus sends ___________________________ as a sign of approval.

After Odysseus shrugs off his beggar's rags and reveals his true identity, he shoots an arrow through _______________________________.

Once Odyssesus has revealed himself, _____________________ is the first to speak. He blames Antinous as the ringleader and begs Odysseus to let them go, but Odysseus refuses.

In the battle against the suitors, Telemachus kills __________________ with a spear.

During the battle with the suitors, Athena ____________________ the arrows of the six suitors who attempt an attack on Odysseus.

In the battle with the suitors, Athena finally makes her presence known to all by making her _______________ visible to all in the hall. The suitors now realize that the gods side with Odysseus.

Penelope decides to _____________________ Odysseus by asking her servant to move her bed outside of her bedroom for Odysseus to sleep on.

Odysseus becomes enraged when Penelope says the bed should be moved outside of the bedroom, because he hand-carved his bed out of _________________ and it cannot be moved.

Penelope begs Odysseus to understand about their bed; it has been  so long since Odysseus has been gone, she feared ____________ were tricking her.

Penelope blames a goddess for making Helen commit adultery and causing __________ in the first place.

After Odysseus kills the suitors and reunites with Penelope, he goes to ______________________________ , as the townspeople gather to fight Odysseus.

When the townspeople of Ithaca gather to fight Odysseus after he's killed the suitors, _____________ steps in to make peace between them.

When Odysseus finally embraces Penelope at the end of the story, it is "as the sun-warmed earth is longed for by a swimmer spent in rough water where his ship went down under Poseidon's blows, gales winds and tons of sea. Few men can keep alive through a big surf to crawl, clotted with brine, on kindly beaches in joy, knowing the abyss behind: and so she too rejoiced, her gaze upon her husband, her white arms round him pressed as though forever..." This is an example of ____________________________.