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Complete the worksheet questions. You are encouraged to look back to the text to help you compose your answers.
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Question
16. Why is it important for Telemachus to meet Pisistratus?
40. Why might Demodocus's blindness be significant?
17. What does Telemachus learn about himself? About the meaning of being a son? About the treatm
41. With whom is Odysseus quarreling in the first song by Demoducus? What does Alcinous do when
15. Why is it important for Telemachus to meet Nestor in particular? What does he seem to represent
39. What is Arete's role in helping Odysseus on his journey?
18. How do Menelaus and Helen compare with Nestor as hosts?
42. What does Odysseus do to win the respect of the young Phaeacians? Why?
19. Do Menelaus and Helen know who Telemachus is at the beginning of the book?
43. What does Alcinous ask Odysseus at the end of Book 8?
3. How would you characterize Telemachus at this point? What are his strengths?
27. Calypso asks Odysseus to compare her with Penelope; does Odysseus respond satisfactorily?Exp
22. Who is Proteus? how does Menelaus catch him and with whose help?
4. What are his weaknesses?
28. How would you characterize the making of the raft and the departure of Odysseus?
6. What tragic homecoming story do we hear of? How does it relate to the situation in Ithaca?
30. After two days of swimming, note several phases of decision making. Does Odysseus accomplish
12. What is the omen and what are the two different interpretations of its meaning?
36. What is the difference between the way Odysseus greeted Nausicaa and the way he greets Arete
1. What do you see as the attitude of the Gods toward men?
25. How long does Odysseus stay on Calypso's island? What is the source of Calypso's power over O
23. What does Menelaus tell Telemachus about Odysseus' whereabouts?
20. What do you make of the relationship between Menelaus and Helen (remember, the Trojan war w
2. What do you see as the attitude of the Greeks toward hospitality?
26. What do we learn of Calypso's feelings for Odysseus? What will she give him if he stays with her?
21. What is impressive about their palace?
24. Why is information withheld so frequently (Proteus at first balks, and Penelope's sister, in a dream
7. Who is Phemius? What is his importance?
31. Why does Nausicaa go to the river to wash clothes? What is the explanation she gives her father?
14. How does Athena help Telemachus prepare for Nestor?
38. What does Odysseus say when asked to identify himself?
13. How does Telemachus respond to the position put forward by Antinous?
9. How does this relate to the visit of Athena?
33. What do you think Odysseus's speech to Nausicaa tells us ...