Odyssey Part 2 Viewing Guide
1. What directions to Tiresias say that Odysseus must travel home
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2. Whom does Odysseus meet after Tiresias? What news does she share?
3. What does Telemachus hope has become of his father?
4. How long does Penelope say that her suitors must wait?
5. What sort of monster is Scylla? Charybdis?
6. How many of Odysseus’ men are left after their encounter with Scylla and Charybdis?
7. Why do you think Penelope says the tapestry will never be done?
8. What are some of the behaviors that Penelope’s servant finds so appalling?
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9. How long has it been since Odysseus next host has seen a man? Who is his new host?
10. What nightmare wakes Odysseus in the cave?
11. What does Penelope tell Telemachus to do instead of killing the suitors in their sleep?
12. How have the suitors managed to rid themselves of Telemachus temporarily?
13. Odysseus has two scars; how did he receive them?
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14. How does Telemachus’ servant know the gods are watching him with favor?
15. Where does Athena tell Telemachus that he should go?
16. How long was Odysseus trapped on Calypso’s island?
17. Who commands that Calypso free Odysseus?
18. Why does Calypso think that she is being forced to give up her lover?
19. How do the suitors react when they learn the truth about Penelope’s tapestry?
20. What does Telemachus learn in Sparta?
21. How does Poseidon answer Odysseus at sea?
22. Where does Odysseus next wash up on the beach?
23. Why does Odysseus refuse to share his name with the king?
24. What gift does the king give him for his journey?
25. Why does Odysseus say that Poseidon is allowing him to pass?
26. What does Athena say it is that Odysseus is truly frightened of?
27. How does she help him?
28. What plan do the suitors hatch to kill Telemachus?
29. What is the challenge that Penelope sets for the suitors?
30. What happens to the suitors when Odysseus returns? Do you think that it was justified?