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Who imprisons Odysseus and his crew and tried to eat them, but Odysseus blinds him and manages to escape? |
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Who is the beautiful nymph who falls in love with Odysseus and holds him captive on her island for 7 years? |
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Name the beautiful witch-goddess who transforms Odysseus' crew into animals. |
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Name the servant who recognized the scar on Odysseus' leg and kept his identity a secret. |
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Name the sea monster who takes the form of a mouth and swallows huge amounts of water creating whirlpools. |
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Who are Odysseus' earthly antagonists? |
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Who gives Odysseus a bag full of captured winds so he could sail home easily on the gentle West Wind? |
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Who is Odysseus' divine antagonist and god of the sea? |
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Who is the suitor who leads the campaign to have Telemachus killed? |
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Who spends her days in the palace pining for the husband who left for Troy 20 years ago and never returned? |
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Although Odysseus warned his men not to, they killed and ate some of ___ cattle and he, in anger, had Zeus destroy their ship and all the men except Odysseus. |
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Name the goddess who assists Odysseus and Telemachaus with divine powers throughout the epic |
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King of Sparta, brother of Agamemnon, & husband of Helen, he helped lead the Greeks in the Trojan War & offers Telemachus help in finding his father. |
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Who shows Odysseus how to get back to Ithica & allows him to communicate with the other souls in Hades? |
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The winged messenger of the gods who tells Calypso to free Odysseus from her spell. |
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Who is the son of Odysseus? |
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Odysseus was curious to hear their songs & had all his sailors plug their ears with wax and tie him to the mast of his ship to avoid being lured to their deaths. |
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Name the natives who, under the influence of a plant, thought of nothing but the need to eat more of the plant. |
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Name the sea monster with 6 heads who snatches 6 of Odysseus' men from his ship & devours them alive. |
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Who is the protagonist of the epic? |
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Who is the king of gods & men who sometimes helps Odysseus or allows Athena to help Odysseus? |
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Who is the King of the Phaeacians who, after hearing of his wanderings & realizing who he is, provides Odysseus with safe passage back to Ithica? |
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By lying to the Cyclops about his name, Odysseus show us which trait? |
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What character trait does Odysseus display when he listens to the Sirens' song? |
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The repeated use of the epithet "Laretes' son" emphasizes what character trait of Odysseus? |
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What was the name of Odysseus' faithful dog? |
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What character traits does Penelope reveal in Part 2 of The Odyssey? |
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What skill does Odysseus' triumph in the bow-and-arrow challenge reveal? |
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