WorksheetsOdyssey Books 11-12
Total questions: 11
Worksheet time: 19mins
Which of the following is NOT one of the instructions from Tiresias to Odysseus in the Underworld (p 282-283)? LOOK CAREFULLY AT THE PASSAGE!
Take an oar to people who have no knowledge of the sea, and fix it in the earth there.
Make sacrifices to Poseidon -- a bull and stud-boar.
Kill all the suitors inside the halls of Ithaca.
Find Elpenor's body on Circe's island and bury it.
What is FORESHADOWED in Book 11 that happens in Book 12?
Odysseus will bury Elpenor's body as Elpenor asked.
Helios's cows will be killed, causing the men's deaths.
Odysseus will avenge his mother's death.
BOTH answers 1 and 2 (blue and turquoise) are correct.
Whose death serves as a warning for Odysseus about what NOT to do when arriving back home after a long time away?
Anticleia, his mother
Agamemnon, his friend
Ajax, his friend-turned-foe
Elpenor, his young crewman
On page 282, lines 104-105, Tiresias tells Odysseus what he has to do to get home safely. What is that?
He has to appease the gods.
He has to control his urges and his men.
He has to avenge his fellow warriors' deaths.
He has to make special sacrifices to Poseidon.
On page 285, lines 190-202, Anticleia--Odysseus's mother--tells Odysseus how she died. How is that?
She died from old age.
She was killed by one of the suitors.
She died of grief, missing Odysseus.
She died in a shipwreck searching for Odysseus.
Circe gives Odysseus another list of tips for his journey (p 302-305). In that conversation (p 303-304), she tells him that he must choose which of the following paths through a difficult stretch of sea?
The Wandering Rocks, battered with mighty waves
Past Scylla the sea monster and Charybdis the whirlpool
The way Jason's ship, the Argo, took home from Aeetes
Into Erebus, the dark Underworld location
On p 305, lines 115-119, Circe identifies Odysseus's biggest challenge. She says his mind is _________
still too focused on the deeds of war.
distracted by his longing for Penelope.
too undisciplined to be a good leader.
too full of anger at Poseidon.
On p 306, Odysseus says to his men, "the revelations Circe shared with me should not be kept a secret, known to me alone." This shows that Odysseus has learned his lesson from the time when _______
he trespassed on Cyclops's island and lost many men.
he did not share the contents of the bag of winds with his men.
he taunted Poseidon's son, angering him.
he talked with Ajax in the Underworld, asking for forgiveness.
What mistake does Odysseus make when he passes Scylla with his men (p 308, lines 225-235)? (He fails to follow part of Circe's instructions -- what part?)
He falls asleep.
He steers the ship the wrong way.
He does not pray to the gods first.
He wears his battle armor and weapons.
After the men kill and eat some of Helios's cattle, why does Zeus ultimately punish the men (p 313)?
because Zeus hates it when humans disobey the gods
because Poseidon again petitions Zeus to punish Odysseus
because Helios threatens to take his light down to Hades
because Zeus had to fulfill the prophecy of Tiresias
At the end of Book 12 (p 315, lines 440-450), Odysseus's story comes full circle when he ends up where we first met him -- where is that?
at Troy
on Ithaca
on Circe's island
on Calypso's island
