Practice

The author of The Odyssey.

Practice Answer

Homer

Odysseus Odysseus’Challenges

Important Places

Important People The Gods

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Final Jeopardy

Question 1 - 100

Odysseus’ home

Answer 1 – 100

Ithaca

Question 1 - 200

The number of years that Odysseus is held hostage by

Calypso.

Answer 1 – 200

Seven

Question 1 - 300

Odysseus is referred to as “the man of twists and turns,”

which is an example of this.

Answer 1 – 300

An epithet

Question 1 - 400

This blind seer informs Odysseus how to get home.

Answer 1 – 400

Tiresias

Question 1 - 500

Once he arrives home, Odysseus kills this suitor first.

Answer 1 – 500

Antinous

Question 2 – 100

Circe transforms Odysseus’ men into what kind of animal.

Answer 2 – 100

Pigs

Question 2 - 200

Odysseus tells his men to stuff earwax into their ears in order

to escape this type of creature’s song.

Answer 2 – 200

Siren

Question 2 - 300

This happens to Odysseus’ men after they eat the lotus flower.

Answer 2 – 300

They lose their memory and forget that they want to go

home.

Question 2 - 400

The very first group of people Odysseus and his men

encounter on their journey home. This group kills so many

of Odysseus’ men, they are forced to flee.

Answer 2 – 400

Cicones

Question 2 - 500

Scylla takes and kills this many of Odysseus’ men.

Answer 2 – 500

Six

Question 3 - 100

The island where Calypso lives

Answer 3 – 100

Ogygia

Question 3 - 200

The original place Odysseus traveled to (basically, the

reason why he is trying to get home).

Answer 3 – 200

Troy

Question 3 - 300

Odysseus and his men land on this island, which they find out

is inhabited by cannibals.

Answer 3 – 300

Laestrygonia

Question 3 - 400

Odysseus and his men return to this place to provide proper

burial rites for Elpenor.

Answer 3 – 400

Aeaea

Question 3 - 500

Alcinous and Arete are the king and queen of this country.

Answer 3 – 500

Phaeacia

Question 4 - 100

Wife of Odysseus and mother of Telemachus.

Answer 4 – 100

Penelope

Question 4 - 200

This person recognizes Odysseus because of a scar on

his leg.

Answer 4 – 200

Eurycleia

Question 4 - 300

This princess discovers Odysseus and brings him to

her father, Alcinous.

Answer 4 – 300

Nausicaa

Question 4 - 400

This person gives Odysseus a bag of winds before he leaves his island. Also known as the

“Keeper of the Winds.”

Answer 4 – 400

Aeolus

Question 4 - 500

When Odysseus finally arrives home, he visits this person

first.

Answer 4 – 500

Eumaeus

Question 5 - 100

This god kills all of Odysseus’ men by destroying their ship

with a thunderbolt.

Answer 5 – 100

Zeus

Question 5 - 200

This god visits Telemachus disguised as Mentes, lord of

the Taphians.

Answer 5 – 200

Athena

Question 5 - 300

We find out the Cyclops, Polyphemus, is the son of this

god.

Answer 5 – 300

Poseidon

Question 5 - 400

This god’s herd of cattle lives on the island of Thrinacia.

Odysseus and his men kill the cattle after being warned not

to.

Answer 5 – 400

Helios

Question 5 - 500

This god visits Odysseus on Circe’s island and gives him moly, an herb to keep him

from being affected by Circe’s potion.

Answer 5 – 500

Hermes

Final Jeopardy

Odysseus meets and talks with several people in the

Underworld. Name four of these people.

Final Jeopardy Answer

• Tiresias• Anticleia• Elpenor• Agamemnon• Achilles• Ajax

• Epicaste, Chloris, Leda, Iphimedeia, Phaedra, Procris, Ariadne, Clymene, Maera, Eriphyle, Antilochus, Patroclus, Tantalus, Tityus, Sisyphus, Minos, Orion, Heracles