Honors English I with Coach Dice: 'The Odyssey' Quiz

Answer: goddesses that inspired artists; 9

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In the beginning of "The Odyssey," Homer invoked the aid of a muse. Why, you ask? find out in the next information box.

Answer: To tell the tale of a man of many wiles.

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The man Homer wants to write about is Odysseus. Homer also uses the epithet "a man of many wiles." An epithet is a phrase used to characterize the character's nature, an event, or an object.
*The option 'a man of many interests' wasn't far off, though. Throughout the Odyssey, Odysseus slept with a few different women other than his wife. He spent a year sleeping with Circe, who had turned his men into pigs, and seven years with Calypso who kept him imprisoned during that time. He was almost literally her 'sex slave.'

Answer: The gray-eyed goddess, the wine-dark sea, the white-armed Nausicaa.

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In the "Odyssey," several examples of epithets are used. Such as the gray-eyed goddess or Pallas, Athena; the man of many wiles or Laertes' son, Odysseus; the rosy-fingered dawn, the sunrise; and the wine-dark sea, the ocean.

Answer: Ethiopia

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If you got that question wrong, nice try. You got an 73.5% on that test. You barely got a 'C'.

In the fifth book, when 'the man of many wiles' is sailing home after seven years of imprisonment on Ogygia, Poseidon is returning from Ethiopia. Why was Poseidon in Ethiopia? The Ethiopians were the people Poseidon favored over all others and they were giving a feast and an offering to him.

Answer: That Odysseus shouldn't get home or that it should take a long time

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If you got that question wrong, not bad. You got 88% on that test.

As Odysseus was sailing away from the land of the cyclopes, Polyphemus cursed Odysseus. He prayed to his father, Poseidon, that Odysseus would never see his homeland again, but if the gods decided that he was fated to return home, then that day should be a long way away. This is an example of foreshadowing because it ends up taking around 20 years for Odysseus to return to Ithaca.

Answer: Put honey in his men's ears and have himself tied to the mast.

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Circe warned Odysseus and his men about Scylla and Charybdis, but knew that only Odysseus would live. As you can imagine, Odysseus didn't tell his men that.

Answer: All of these.

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If you got this question wrong, nice try. You got a 92.5% on your worksheet. On the bright side, you got an 'A' and Coach Dice didn't chastise you.

The first time Odysseus and his men visited Aeolus's island, Aeolus was kind and helped them out. Odysseus and his men sailed from Aeolus's island to Ithaca. They got within eyesight, but Odysseus's men opened the bag full of harmful winds, thinking that it was full of treasure (Obviously Odysseus didn't tell his men what the bag held). The ship was blown back to Aeolus's island. When Odysseus begged Aeolus to help, Aeolus refused. Aeolus said that Odysseus and his men were cursed by a god and that he could do nothing to help.

Answer: Hunting

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When Odysseus finally returned home, he decided to arrive disguised as a beggar so that the suitors wouldn't kill him upon arrival. The only person who recognized him was Eurycleia, Odysseus's servant who nursed him as a child. She recognized him by the scar on his leg that he received while hunting.

Answer: moly

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Moly is a 'magical herb' that has black roots and white blossoms. It was thought that only a divine being (such as a god) could pick Moly.

Answer: Aeaea; Ogygia

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If you got that question wrong, nice try. You got a 88% on Coach Dice's curriculum on Homer's "The Odyssey." (That curriculum is 15% of your final grade.)

Odysseus spent a good deal of time on both Aeaea and Ogygia, but the big difference is the amount of time he spent on both. He spent only one year on Aeaea with Circe, whereas he spent seven years on Ogygia with Calypso. Although he didn't really have a choice on Ogygia; Calypso held him captive until Hermes came to have him released by order of the gods on Olympus.