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Book 9 of the Odyssey: the cave, the sharpened stake, the name Noman, and the shout that costs Odysseus ten years and every man he has.
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Which order matches the Cyclops episode in Book 9?
Odysseus cuts about six feet from the Cyclops's green olive-wood club. What do he and his men do to that piece before hiding it under the dung in the cave?
Before the ships reach the Cyclopes' coast, the crew stop at a land whose food makes the men who eat it stop caring about going home. Which stop is that?
After the blinding, in what order does the escape from the cave happen?
Odysseus takes twelve of his best men into the cave with him. By the time the olive stake goes into the Cyclops's eye, how many of them has Polyphemus eaten?
Polyphemus hurls a rock that lands just in front of the ship and washes it back toward the mainland. What does Odysseus do between that rock and the second, larger one?
On the first night Polyphemus leaves his rams and he-goats outside in the yard, but on the evening he is blinded he drives every animal into the cave.
His men beg Odysseus to snatch some cheeses, drive off the lambs and kids, and put to sea before the cave's owner comes back. He refuses and waits. Why?
On the first night Odysseus is ready to draw his sword and drive it into the sleeping Cyclops, then stops himself. Why does he hold back?
Why does Odysseus press the strong unmixed wine of Maron on the Cyclops, filling the bowl for him three times?
Why does Odysseus tell the Cyclops that his name is Noman?
Odysseus leaves eleven ships and their crews at the goat island and crosses to the Cyclopes' shore with his own ship only. Why?
Odysseus and his men are clear of the shore, and the crew beg him to hold his tongue. He shouts at the blinded Cyclops anyway. What is he after?
Who shouts "Noman is killing me by fraud! Noman is killing me by force!"?
The Cyclops answers the plea for hospitality: "We Cyclopes do not care about Zeus or any of your blessed gods, for we are ever so much stronger than they." What does the line establish?
Odysseus opens his story to the Phaeacians: "I am Odysseus son of Laertes, renowned among mankind for all manner of subtlety, so that my fame ascends to heaven." What does he claim for himself?
Polyphemus prays: "grant that Odysseus may never reach his home alive; or if he must get back to his friends at last, let him do so late and in sore plight after losing all his men." What does the second half ask for?
Asked where his ship is moored, Odysseus lies: "Poseidon sent my ship on to the rocks at the far end of your country, and wrecked it." What does the lie protect?
The blinding is described this way: "As a blacksmith plunges an axe or hatchet into cold water to temper it... even thus did the Cyclops' eye hiss round the beam of olive wood." Which device is this?
Book 9 marks each new day with the same phrase: "the child of morning, rosy-fingered Dawn." What is a repeated fixed phrase like this called?
Polyphemus holds the last ram and asks it: "Is it because you know your master has lost his eye... that wicked Noman and his horrid crew has got him down in his drink and blinded him?" Odysseus is clinging under that ram. Which device?
Odysseus does not live through the Cyclops episode on the page; he tells it aloud, years later, as a guest at King Alcinous's feast. What does that make Book 9?
The crew are already at sea and out of reach when Odysseus shouts his name. Why does that shout cost him so much?
Which statement about Book 9 is NOT true?
Polyphemus had never been warned that he might lose his sight.
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The Odyssey: The Homecoming
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