WorksheetsThe Odyssey Part 3
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 11mins
Whose ship returns Odysseus to Ithaca?
Laestrygonians
Phaeacians
Menelaus
Eumaeus
Who disguises Odysseus as an old beggar?
Athena
Zeus
Eumaeus
Phaeacians
At first, why can’t Telemachus believe the stranger is Odysseus?
He thinks he is a god because he transformed from rags into clean clothes.
He is in denial that his father has actually arrived home.
He is upset that he’s no longer in charge.
He thought his father was dead.
Who is the swineherd who helps Odysseus?
Eurylochus
Eurymachus
Eurycleia
Eumaeus
Who devises (thinks up) the test of the great bow?
Odysseus
Athena
Penelope
Telemachus
How many suitors (NOT Odysseus) are able to string Odysseus’s bow?
Zero
One
Two
Three
Who does Odysseus kill first?
Eurymachus
Eurylochus
Alcinous
Antinous
Why don’t the suitors use their weapons to attack Odysseus and his men?
Telemachus ties all the men up
Odysseus burns their weapons
Telemachus removed their weapons from the great hall
They apologize and make peace with Odysseus
Penelope doesn't fully believe Odysseus is indeed who he claims until he provides her confidential information about what object?
His scar
His shield
Their bed
Their gold
The men who are living in Penelope’s home, eating her food, and insisting that she marry one of them are called
fiancés
beggars
suitors
What kind of contest does Penelope give the princes?
A contest of wits
An archery contest
A sword fight
Antinous' treatment of the beggar reveals that he is all the following EXCEPT
rude
cruel
confident
sympathetic
Antinous, leader of the suitors, is
generous
irrational
selfish
sympathetic
How does Penelope delay her marriage to a suitor?
She has told the suitors that she will marry once she is done weaving a shroud. At night she secretly undoes her work.
She tells the men that they will have to participate in hand to hand combat.
She tells them that she will never marry and that they should immediately return to their homes
She will pick a number out of a hat.
