The Odyssey Anticipation Guide

a long poem that tells about the adventures of a hero

• homeric simile

• epic

• invocation

• muse

He was the blind teller of tales who first recorded The Iliad and The Odyssey

• Circe

• Homer

• Telemachus

• the Muse

She had twelve tentacles and six heads that stole men from their ships as they sailed by.

• Cyclops

• Calypso

• Scylla

• Penelope

The Lotus Eaters enticed the men to

• fight

• stay in their land

• turn into pigs

• mutiny against Odysseus

Tiresias says ​ (a)   lies ahead for Odysseus, and he warns him to avoid the ​ (b)   on the island. Tiresias also tells Odysseus to defeat the (c)   at his house then stick ​ (d)   in the ground and make an offering to ​ (e)   before dying.

• anguish

• kine

• suitors

• an oar

• Poseidon

• glory

• swine

• sheep herders

• the hull of his ship

• Zeus

What is xenia?

• Wrath of gods

• Excessive pride

• A code of hospitality

• A goddess

The Odyssey begins when Homer calls on...

• Hades

• one of the nine Muses

• Odysseus

• Zeus

Odysseus was trying to return to

• Troy

• Sparta

• Ithaca

• Athens

Who is Odysseus's son?

• Antinous

• Alcinous

• Telemachus

• Teletubby

Who is Odysseus's wife?

• Penelope

• Patricia

• Peter Parker

• Persephone