Question 1

Who is the main character of the Odyssey?

Accepted Answer

Odysseus

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Telemachus

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Polyphemus

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Zeus

Question 2

How does our story begin?

Accepted Answer

With Odysseus telling Alcinous of his travels

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With Zues and Poseidon discussing the fate of Odysseus

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With Odyssesu landing in the land of the Cyclops

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With the Trojan War beginning

Question 3

Where is Odysseus' home?

Accepted Answer

Ithaca

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Cicones

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Aeolia

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Aeaea

Question 4

When arriving at the first spot in our story, Ismarus, what did Odysseus and his men do?

Accepted Answer

Stormed the place and killed the men who fought

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Took shelter

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Traded with the natives

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Slept aboard their ships

Question 5

What did the Lotus flower do to those who ate it?

Accepted Answer

Made them forget their quest

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Get fat

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Turn into pigs

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Made them mutinous against their captain

Question 6

How did Odysseus get his men to leave the Island of the Lotus Eaters?

Accepted Answer

Carried and tied them down

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Tricked them into the boat

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Used his knowledge to talk them out of their trance

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Killed them and took their bodies on the ship

Question 7

Which word best describes the Cyclopes?

Accepted Answer

Savage

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Natural-Farmers

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Polite

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Civilized

Question 8

What did Odysseus and his men find in the Cyclops' home?

Accepted Answer

Cheese and lambs

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Wine

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Water

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Farming tools

Question 9

Why did Odysseus not kill Polyphemus when he first had the chance?

Accepted Answer

He knew he needed Polyphemus to move the boulder

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His men frowned upon killing magical creatures

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He feared the wrath of Poseidon

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He wanted Polyphemus to join his crew

Question 10

What is the Cyclops' name?

Accepted Answer

Polyphemus

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Calypso

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Telemachus

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Circe

Question 11

What did Odysseus tell Polyphemus his name was?

Accepted Answer

Nohbdy

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King of Ithaca

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Odysseus

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Someone

Question 12

What did Polyphemus grant Odysseus in exchange for his name?

Accepted Answer

The gift of eating him last

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The gift of 1 ram to eat

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The gift of eating him first

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The gift of allowing one man to leave the cave

Question 13

What did Odysseus offer Polyphemus?

Accepted Answer

Wine

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Knowledge

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Power

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A chance to meet his father

Question 14

Who is Polyphemus' father?

Accepted Answer

Poseidon

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Zues

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Odysseus

Answer

Helios

Question 15

What was the first step in Odysseus and his men escaping the Cyclops?

Accepted Answer

Getting Polyphemus drunk

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Flattering him into letting them go

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Killing his sheep

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Stabbing him in the stomach

Question 16

What was the second step in Odysseus and his men escaping the Cyclops?

Accepted Answer

Stabbing Polyphemus in the eye

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Signaling his crew to help

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Tempting him with the secrets of the world

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Sacrificing one of the crew members

Question 17

What was the last step in Odysseus and his men escaping the Cyclops?

Accepted Answer

Hiding on the bellies of his sheep as they left the cave

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Running out of the cave

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Killing Polyphemus

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Asking for the help of the Gods

Question 18

What did Odysseus yell back to Polyphemus when escaping from the island?

Accepted Answer

His real name

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How many goats he had stolen

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What he used to stab Polyphemus

Answer

That Polyphemus was stupid

Question 19

What did Polyphemus do when Odysseus was escaping the island?

Accepted Answer

Ask his father to curse Odysseus

Answer

Destroy the island

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Cry

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Ask Zeus to kill Odysseus

Question 20

What did Circe do to Odysseus' men?

Accepted Answer

Turn them into pigs

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Keep them on the island

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Turn them against Odysseus

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Get them drunk and kill them

Question 21

Who did Odysseus need to find in the land of the dead?

Accepted Answer

Tiresias

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Calypso

Answer

Perimedes

Answer

Telemachus

Question 22

Who was the first person Odysseus encountered  in the land of the dead?

Accepted Answer

Elpenor

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Eurylochus

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Persephone

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Tiresias

Question 23

How did Elpenor die?

Accepted Answer

He got drunk and fell off of a roof

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Polyphemus ate him

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Circe killed him

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He stabbed himself with a sword

Question 24

What did Elpenor ask of Odysseus

Accepted Answer

To cremate him and build a monument

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To send his body out to sea

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To exact revenge for his death

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To bless his death

Question 25

Who did Odysseus see that made him distraught?

Accepted Answer

His mother, Anticlea

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The beautiful goddess, Aphrodite

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His son, Telemachus

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His crew-member, Elpenor

Question 26

What is Tiresias

Accepted Answer

A blind prophet

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A god

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A dead knight

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Odysseus' father

Question 27

What did Tiresias warn Odysseus not to do?

Accepted Answer

Eat Helios' cattle

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Sail on Poseidon's seas

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Steal Zeus' thunderbolts

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Drink Dionysus' wine

Question 28

If Helios' cattle were eaten, what would happen?

Accepted Answer

All of Odysseus' men would die and he would be lost for years

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Odysseus' son and wife would be killed

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Odysseus and his men would be escorted back home by the gods

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Odysseus would die and be trapped in the underworld

Question 29

What does Tiresias say Odysseus will return home to find?

Accepted Answer

Men eating his livestock and trying to marry his wife

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His lands taken over and his son trying to kill him

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His wife cheating on him and his son dead

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His wife dead and his livestock stolen

Question 30

What will Odysseus have to do after he has killed the suitors?

Accepted Answer

Make sacrifices to Poseidon

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Leave his home and never return

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Kill his son

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Marry another woman

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