Odyssey Part 1 – The Wanderings Study GuideName:______
1. Who is the protagonist of The Odyssey?______
2. Who is the blind bard or storyteller of The Odyssey? ______
3. What is the name of the King that Odysseus is a guest in his home? ______
4. Who is the God that is angry with the hero? ______
5. How many days are Odysseus and his men at sea before they make landfall?______
6. Why did they stop on the island? ______
7. What is the flower in the Island? ______
8. What is the curse associated with the flower? ______
9. What does Odysseus do to the men when he gets them back on the boat? ______
10. What land did Odysseus and his men come to next? ______
11. What is the monster’s name that lives on this island? ______
12. Why were the men trapped in the cave? ______
13. What name did Odysseus give himself while trapped in the cave? ______
14. What do they do to Polyphemus? ______
15. How do they get out of the cave? ______
16. What is in the bag that Odysseus received? ______
17. What does Odysseus’s men, think is in the bag? ______
18. What island does Odysseus and his men come to next? ______
19. What power does the witch have over humans? ______
20. What two animals are sitting in front of the witch’s house? ______
21. What does she turn Odysseus’s men into? ______
22. Who stops Odysseus when he goes to save his men? ______
23. What does the god give Odysseus? ______
24. What does it do? ______
25. Once Circe realizes her powers don’t work on Odysseus what does she do? ______
26. What must Odysseus do for Circe to help him and his men get home? ______
27. Who must Odysseus seek and what must he get? ______
28. What does Tieresias (Prophet T) tell Odysseus? ______
29. Where does Odysseus go after he leaves Prophet T? ______
30. How many monsters will Odysseus encounter when he leaves Circe’s island and what are they called? ______
31. What do the Sirens do? ______
32. How many legs does Scylla have? ______
33. How many heads does Scylla have? ______
34. How many rows of teeth does Scylla have? ______
35. How many men will Scylla take from every boat that passes her? ______
36. What is Charybdis? ______
37. What will Odysseus lose if he chooses her path? ______
38. Once past Scylla and Charybdis what island will Odysseus make land? ______
39. What is on this Island and who do they belong to? ______
40. What did Circe and Tieresias tell Odysseus he and his men must do while on this island? ______
41. What do Odysseus’s men do; why do they do it? ______
42. What happens to Odysseus’s men and the boat? ______
43. Who was the cause of it? ______
44. What happens to Odysseus? ______
Odyssey Part 2 – The Homecoming Study Guide:
1. ______I am the wife of Odysseus.
2. ______I am the swineherd a faithful servant.
3. ______I tried to place blame on the leader of the suitors for our behavior.
4. ______I am the king of the Phaecians, I helped Odysseus get home.
5. ______The land where Odysseus received his scar while hunting.
6. ______I am the leader of the Suitors. I was killed first.
7. ______I am the son of Odysseus.
8. ______I am the nurse/maid for the family of Odysseus
9. ______I am the goddess that disguised Odysseus on his return home.
10. ______I am Odysseus dog.
11. Odysseus shot the leader of the suitors under his chin and the arrow punched ______.
12. Odysseus is disguised as a ______when he finally returns home.
13. When Odysseus returns to his home land he sees his dog laying on a pile of ______.
14. Why does the dog finally die?______
15. Eurycleia notices a ______on the beggars leg and knows he is Odysseus.
16. Odysseus pays the maids at the end of the story by ______.
17. Where does Odysseus tell Eumaeus to have the maids and Penelope retire before the battle with the suitors?
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18. Both the Swineherd and the Cowherd agree they would fight for Odysseus upon his return and are
promised?
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19. Penelope creates a challenge for the suitors; that requires they ______.
20. The suitors agree to repay Odysseus for the food they consumed and will add ______
21. What are the suitors doing at Odysseus’s house?______
Place the events as they happened in the story in order below:
22. _____A. Penelope creates a challenge for the suitors.
23. _____B. Eumaeus tells Penelope and the maids to bolt themselves in the family chambers
24. _____C. Odysseus sees his dog Argos.
25. _____D. While the suitors are trying to complete the challenge Odysseus reveals himself to
both the swineherd and the cowherd.
26. _____E. Penelope is certain the man before her is Odysseus.
27. _____F. Odysseus and Eumaeus discuss the type of dog Argos must have been.
28. _____G. Telemachus hangs the maids in the courtyard
29. _____H. Telemachus returns home and goes to the house of Eumaeus to prevent from getting
ambushed by the suitors.
30. _____I. Odysseus kills Antinous.
31. _____J. Argos dies.
32. _____K. Odysseus returns to Ithaca disguised as a beggar.
33. _____L. Odysseus completes Penelope’s test of the suitors.
Literary Devices and Themes of The Odyssey
Be able to define/identify: (THIS IS THE BIGGEST PART OF YOUR TEST!)
- in medias res:______
- Epic Poem______
- Epic Simile:______
- Nostos and Xenia:______
- Epithet:______
- Define the Epic Hero Archetype and write the stages of the Hero’s Journey or Monomyth:
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- Allusion: ______
- Dramatic Irony: ______
- Onomatopoeia: ______
- Hyperbole: ______
- Personification: ______
Essay:Choose one of the following questions and answer using the paragraph format we learned earlier this year. Remember the more detail you give the better off you will be.
Explain the significance of hospitality or xenia in mythology, and choose three specific examples from the story where Odysseus is or is not shown hospitality and the consequences of those actions.
Explain how the concept of “trickery or deceit” is used in The Odyssey. Include three specific examples from the story to prove this is a relevant theme.
Explain the relationship between the gods and the mortals in The Odyssey. What does this relationship reveal about agency vs. determinism?