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What goddess aids Odysseus?
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Athena
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Who changes Odysseus into a beggar?
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Athena
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Who keeps Odysseus a prisoner,
“craving him for a husband”?
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Calypso
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Whom does Homer call on to
help tell his story?
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Muse
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Who gives Odysseus directions
to the Kingdom of the Dead?
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Circe
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Which suitor especially
outspoken and critical of
Telemachus?
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Antinous
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Who is Menelaus’ wife?
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Helen
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Who is Nestor’s son who
accompanies Telemachus to
Sparta?
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Pisistratus
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Who was Telemachus’ nurse
when he was a boy and basically
raised him?
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Eurycliea
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What king is killed by his wife’s
lover?
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Agamemnon
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What monster sucks down sea
water three times a day?
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Charybdis
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What does Odysseus tell
Polyphemus his name is?
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Nobody
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How many heads does Scylla
have?
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six
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What nickname does
Polyphemus earn among the
cyclopses?
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“grim loner”
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What giant cannibals destroy all
but one of Odysseus’s ships?
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Laestrygonians
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What skill are the Phaecians
good at?
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Dancing (also acceptable,
sailing)
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Where does Odysseus see his
mother?
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In the Kingdom of the Dead
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Odysseus’s men end up on an
island at one point where they
eat…
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The cattle of the sun
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Where do Helen and Menelaus
live?
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Sparta
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Where is Nestor’s palace?
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Pylos
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What god helps Odysseus
avoid Circe’s spells and
potions?
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Hermes
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What author is credited with
writing the Odyssey?
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Homer
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With whom must Odysseus
consult in The Kingdom of the
Dead?
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Teiresias
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What is the Princess of Phaecia
named?
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Nausicaa
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What is the prayer called which
traditionally opens an epic?
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Invocation to the Muse
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