The Odyssey
Study Guide Answers
The Odyssey: Part I
1)  The Muses
2)  17 years
3)  Crying for Penelope and Telemachus
4)  Poseidon
5)  Athena
6)  Hermes
7)  Scheria, Land of the Phaecians
8)  Alcinous
The Odyssey: Part I
9)  They became forgetful, lazy, vegetable-like loungers after eating
the lotus flower.
10)  To trick Polyphemus and the other Cyclops into thinking
Polyphemus was acting crazy.
11)  Polyphemus
12)  Poseidon
13)  God of the Winds, who gives Odysseus a bag of bad winds to
insure only the good winds carried Odysseus and his men home.
14)  Island of the Laestrygonians and Odysseus loses all, but one ship
and 50 of his men.
15)  Aeaea
16)  Pigs or Swine
The Odyssey: Part I
17)  Moly, considered to have magical powers (aka garlic).
18)  Teiresias, blind prophet of Thebes
19)  Half-bird/half-mermaid creatures who sang and played music that
lured men to their deaths by sailing their ships into a rocky coast.
20)  Plug their ears with beeswax and Odysseus would be tied to the
ships mast so that he could guide/steer his men through the
danger and tell them when it would be safe to remove the
beeswax.
The Odyssey: Part I
21)  Giant whirlpool that sucked
the sea in and spit it back up
three times during the day. If
you got trapped in the
current, you went to limbo.
22)  Cliff-dwelling, six-headed
female monster with rows of
teeth.
The Odyssey: Part I
23)  Be sucked in by Charybdis and all perish or lose six men to Scylla.
24)  Scylla swoops down and eats six of Odysseus’ best men as they
avoided Charybdis. Odysseus is down to 44 men at this point.
25)  Thrinakia
26)  Eurylochus
27)  He won t raise the sun again until the men who killed his cattle
were killed.
28)  Zeus kills them with a tremendous thunderstorm and and
throwing lightning bolts on the ship.
29)  Calypso s Island
The Odyssey: Part II
32)  Arrives in Ithaca disguised as an old, crippled beggar
33)  Eumaeus
34)  Pylos and Sparta
35)  Light of my days
36)  Turns his clothing white, cleans his beard, and restores him to his
regal kingly and warrior-like appearance.
37)  Argo takes his last breath and dies.
38)  Scar on his leg when she washes him.
39)  die only by Odysseus and the men who were loyal to him.
The Odyssey: Part II
40)  String Odysseus bow and shoot an arrow through 12 axe handles
and hit the target.
41)  Telemachus, Eumaeus (swineherder), and Philoeteus
42)  Strings the bow and shoots the arrow.
43)  Antinous because he was the cruelest toward Odysseus (disguised
at the beggar), his family, and his loyal servants, as well as he was
the suitors ringleader.
The Odyssey: Part II
44)  Her shield appears in the great hall.
45)  They have to clean up the massacre in the great hall and then are
hung to death.
46)  Makes him look more handsome and reverses the effects of the
journey on him.
47)  Carved from the base of an olive tree (a sign of peace and strength
to the Greeks) that their palace was build around and is a symbol
of their ever-growing and permanent love for one another. Only
Odysseus, Penelope, and Telemachus know the truth about the
bed.
Final Thoughts (pg. 950)
Answer #1, 3, 5, & 8 from pg. 950 in your Literature books on a separate sheet of paper.
On the backside, fill out the hero s journey cycle for Odysseus s journey.
Ordinary
world
SPECIAL WORLD