Heros Journey: Road of trials

O experiences a series of tests during his journey.

How long was Odysseus gone?

20 years--ten in war, ten in return.

Why do the suitors want to marry Penelope?

They will get Odysseus kingdom.

Heros Journey: Refusal of the call.

O doesn't want to leave Penelope to go to war.

Why doesn't Odysseus take all of his men to the Lotus Eater Island?

Everything except the lucky number

Why don't Polyphemus' siblings help him?

They don't believe him because he says Nohbody.

The name Odysseus gives to trick the cyclops.

When the suitors discover her plan, Penelope

is forced to marry one of them.

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1
Passing down a story verbally through generations
epic poetry
bards
Oral tradition
mythology
2
When Odysseus meets his mother in the LOD, he acts
angrily
fearlessly
emotionally
spitefully
3
Heros Journey: Road of trials
Athena tells O to go on a journey and helps him.
O experiences a series of tests during his journey.
O. is victorious in battle
O wants to stay home and not go to war.
4
Penelope puts off the suitors by...
A sword fight
An obstacle course
a trivia contest
An archery contest
5
How long was Odysseus gone?
20 years--18 in war, 2 getting home.
20 years--8 in war, 8 with Calypso, 4 getting home.
10 years
20 years--ten in war, ten in return.
6
Why do the suitors want to marry Penelope?
She's the last woman in Ithaca
They will get Odysseus kingdom.
She's hot.
She is a friend of the gods.
7
Who does Odysseus meet in the Land of the Dead?
Tiresius
Elpinor
His mother
All of these
8
Heros Journey: Refusal of the call.
O wants to leave Calypso's cave
O faces the suitors
O doesn't want to leave Penelope to go to war.
O must go and fight
9
Poseidon is the father of
Zeus
Polyphemus
Odysseus
Athena
10
A large work with supernatural aid, heroism and larger than life characters.
poem
novel
fiction
epic
11
Which is an example of personification
Zeus, son of Cronus
Rosy fingered dawn
he swished over the ocean.
golden haired nymph
12
Who wrote the Hero's Journey?
Joe Campbell
Odysseus
Homer
Shakespeare
13
Why doesn't Odysseus take all of his men to the Lotus Eater Island?
He was afraid he'd lose men
Everything except the lucky number
He got fooled before.
3 is his lucky number
14
The Homeric Problem is
We don't know who Joseph Campbell was.
We don't know who Homer was.
We don't know who Odysseus was.
We don't know what it is.
15
How long is Odysseus gone from home?
10 years war, 10 years return.
2 years fighting, 8 years with Calypso, 10 years return,
10 years fighting, 10 years with Calypso.
10 years fighting, 5 years fooling around, 5 fighting,
16
Why don't Polyphemus' siblings help him?
They think he's stupid.
They think their father should handle it.
Because he's the whiny baby of the family.
They don't believe him because he says Nohbody.
17
Odysseus is disguised as...
a pirate
a swineheard
a god
a beggar
18
Who give Odysseus the gift of wind?
Hermes
Aeolus
Circe
Poseidon
19
How does Penelope prove Odysseus is who he says he is?
Athena tells her
She remembers him.
She tests him
Athena changes him back to himself.
20
Nohbody
The name Odysseus gives to trick the cyclops.
Odysseus' ego is so low he feels like he is a ...
The number of men left on the ships.
The goddesses that Odysseus doesn't live with.
21
Where do the men go on Cyclops island?
a sheep pen
a whirlpool
a cave
the water
22
Who wrote The Odyssey?
Shakespeare
Homer
Joe Campbell
Odysseus
23
Odysseus has help killing the suitors from
the swineheard
All of them
Telemachus
Athena
24
When the suitors discover her plan, Penelope
runs away
is forced to marry one of them.
unravels the shroud
kills herself
25
Who wins Penelope's challenge?
Tiresius
Telemachus
Alcinous
Odysseus
26
The flower that makes men high is
the wine of the gods
Caplypso's hiacynth
The lotus
ambrosia
27
Who is the one person who listens to the Sirens song?
Alcinous
Odysseus
Tiresias
Zeus
28
Heros Journey: Athena tells Odysseus to go on a journey and guides him on his way.
Atonement of the father
Call to adventure
Woman as temptress
supernatural aid
29
Which way does Odysseus go when faced with Scylla or Charybdis?
Charybdis
Scylla
30
Why does Odysseus go back to Circe's Island?
For advice on how to get home
Revenge
To bury Elpinor
To rescue his men
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What does O do to the men who eat the flower?
Laughs and gets the munchies with them.
Ties them to their benches
Leaves them behind
Beats them within an inch of their lives.

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