read 9 -16 answer the questions
When you have finished reading books 9-16, complete the worksheet questions. You are encouraged to look back to the text to help you compose your answers.
BOOK 9 QUESTIONS
1. Where do Odysseus and his men go first after they leave Troy?
2. Who are the Cicones? What danger do they pose to Odysseus and his men?
3. Who are the lotus eaters? What danger do they pose to Odysseus and his men?
4. How does Polyphemus prevent Odysseus and his men from leaving his cave?
5. Are the Cyclopes in any way civilized? Be sure to explain/defend your position
6. What mistake does Odysseus make as he sails away?
BOOK 10 QUESTIONS
7. After the attack from the Laestrygonians, how many of Odysseus’s ships are left?
8. What sort of character is Circe? What craft does she practice that Penelope also practices?
9. Why (not how) aside from her magic is Circe able to turn Odysseus’s men into swine? How do they offend her?
10. What does Hermes give to Odysseus? Why?
11. What makes Odysseus give into Circe’s enticements? Is this typical of him?
12. How long does Odysseus stay in Circe’s palace? Why does he want to leave?
13. Where must Odysseus go to learn his way home?
BOOK 11 QUESTIONS
14. Who is Elpenor and what favor does he ask of Odysseus?
15. What ritual does Odysseus perform in order to meet those in the Underworld?
16. What does Tiresias do in order to speak to Odysseus, and what does Odysseus learn about his journey from Tiresias?
17. What does Odysseus learn from Anticleia? What does he try to do after she speaks to him and why does he fail?
18. What is the Greek underworld (Hades) like?
BOOK 12 QUESTIONS
19. Why has Odysseus returned to Aeaea?
20. How does Circe help him?
21. What does the episode of the Sirens tell us about Odysseus’s character? (Think about what he does here.)
22. What does this episode tell us about Homer’s understanding of the power of music?
23. What is the advice that Circe gives Odysseus about Scylla and Charybdis? Does he take it? What does this tell us about leadership?
24. Why are the cattle of Helios’s island so tempting?
25. What warning does Odysseus give his men and how do they behave? Why?
26. This is not the first time Odysseus’s orders are defied. Does this absolve him of responsibility?
BOOK 13 QUESTIONS
27. How do Poseidon and Zeus interact in this book? What is the balance of power between them? How does Zeus assert his authority? Poseidon his displeasure?
28. How does Odysseus first feel as he lands on Ithaca?
29. How much does he tell the “shepherd” he meets about his true identity and intentions?
30. Does he change when he realizes it is Athena? Hos does she react to his caution
31. How do Odysseus’s actions now compare with his actions in the previous stories? Does the fact that he has no crew now affect the way he acts?
32. Where is Athena going at the end of the book? How deos she help him at this point?
BOOK 14 QUESTIONS
33. How is the swineherd, Eumaeus, connected to Odysseus?
34. What is the prediction about Odysseus that the stranger swears “on my oath” to Eumaeus? How does Eumaeus react to this information?
35. Odysseus tells the swineherd he is from what kind of background? Suffered what kind of hardships?
36. How does Eumaeus react to Odysseus’s story? How does he treat Odysseus?
BOOK 15 QUESTIONS
37. Why is Telemachus awake when Athena comes upon him?
38. How does the beginning of this book compare with the end of Book 14?
39. How does Telemachus’s departure from Sparta parallel Odysseus’s departure from Phaecia?
40. What is the portent that precedes Telemachus’s departure? Who is unsure of how to interpret it? Who know how to interpret it and what does it mean?
41. Why does Telemachus not want to revisit Nestor? 41. How does Pisistratus react to this?
42. Who is Theoclymenus? What portent does he interpret and what is the meaning?
43. How does Odysseus test Eumaeus?
44. How does Telemachus distinguish Eurymachus among the suitors?
BOOK 16 QUESTIONS
45. How does Eumaeus greet Telemachus? What errand is Eumaeus sent on?
46. Why does Odysseus reveal his identity to Telemachus? How does he look when he reveals himself to his son?
47. How does Telemachus react when Odysseus identifies himself?
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