WorksheetsOdyssey Books 22-24
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 14mins
What are the things Odysseus tells Penelope he must do, after they have reunited (p 506)?
Go on raids to replace stolen sheep.
Repay the suitors' parents for their losses.
Go to see his father in the orchards.
Both go on raids and see his father.
To what does the narrator compare the dead suitors' spirits in the epic simile on p. 507?
sleepers
squeaking bats
Hermes
Achilles
Of all the suitors who were in the house, some of whom beg for mercy, which two are spared (see p486-488)?
Leodes and Agelaus
Phemius and Leodes
Phemius and Medon
Mentor and Medon
On p. 495, lines 18-30, Telemachus refers to Troy (the "cursed" town Odysseus "marched off to") by another name. What is the name?
Elysium
Eurycleia
Hades
Evilium
Odysseus has remembered the instructions Tiresias gave him. On p 503, he tells Penelope what he must do to please the gods. What are those things?
Plant an oar in the ground in a place where people do not know the sea.
Make a sacrifice to Lord Poseidon.
Come home and offer sacrifices to all the gods (hecatombs are sacrifices).
Die at sea.
Answers 1, 2 and 3 (oar, sacrifice to Poseidon, sacrifices to all gods).
Who of the following was NOT one of the ghosts the suitors met in the Underworld? See p 507-8
Achilles
Aegisthus
Agamemnon
Ajax
Patroclus
After Amphimedon, one of the dead suitors, recounts their side of the story, how does Agamemnon react (p 513)?
He sympathizes with them and notes that Odysseus was very harsh.
He is enraged that so many good Greek men have died.
He celebrates Odysseus for having a virtuous and loyal wife, unlike his wife.
He praises Telemachus for being a brave young man.
By what epithet is Odysseus referred on p. 514, lines 220-240?
grief-stricken
veteran
godlike
warlike
How do the people of Ithaca react to the news of the suitors' deaths? (p. 521-522)
They are universally outraged and all prepare to march against Odysseus after Antinous's father speaks.
Only a few of them are upset, those who lost sons. The others don't care.
They are filled with terror, and some, including an old warrior, say the suitors had it coming.
There is general chaos; no one knows what to do.
Who tells the Ithacans about the slaughter? (p 520)
Mentor (really disguised Athena)
Medon, the spared boy from the hall
Telemachus, in a speech in front of the people
swift Rumor, who spread the news through the city
