Odysseus tells the drunk Cyclops, "my name is Noman." Blinded, Polyphemus roars to his neighbors, "Noman is killing me by fraud," and they go away. Which quality does this show?

Before the strait of the Sirens, Odysseus tells his crew Circe's warnings and orders them to lash him to the mast. "If I beg and pray you to set me free, then bind me more tightly still." What does the order show?

Begging in his own hall, Odysseus is hit by a footstool thrown by Antinous. "Odysseus stood firm as a rock and the blow did not even stagger him, but he shook his head in silence as he brooded on his revenge." What does this show?

Poseidon smashes the raft Odysseus built to leave Calypso's island. He then "floated about for two nights and two days in the water, with a heavy swell on the sea and death staring him in the face." What does this show?

Telling his story to the Phaeacians, Odysseus says of Calypso: "she wanted to make me immortal that I might never grow old, but she could not persuade me to let her do so." What does the refusal show?

At the whirlpool the crew drop their oars in terror. Odysseus "went round, therefore, and exhorted them man by man not to lose heart," reminded them the Cyclops's cave was worse, and gave the coxswain his orders. What does this show?

Clear of the cave, Odysseus jeers at the Cyclops. A hurled rock nearly hits the ship and "the men begged and prayed of me to hold my tongue." He shouts his own name and his island across the water anyway. What does the poem expose?

Aeolus ties the winds in an ox-hide sack for Odysseus, who keeps its contents to himself and holds the rudder alone until, with Ithaca's fires in sight, he sleeps. Then "evil counsels prevailed. They loosed the sack." What flaw and price is this?

Odysseus says, "We stayed with Circe for a whole twelvemonth feasting upon an untold quantity both of meat and wine." It is then his men who "called me apart" to say it is time to think about going home. What does this expose?

In the Cyclops's empty cave his men beg to take cheeses and run. "It would have been indeed better if we had done so but I would not listen to them, for I wanted to see the owner himself, in the hope that he might give me a present." What follows?

Circe had told Odysseus what waited in the strait. "I said nothing about the awful monster Scylla, for I knew the men would not go on rowing if I did." Minutes later Scylla "snatched up my six best men." What does this expose?

In the house of the dead, Agamemnon warns Odysseus: "do not tell people when you are bringing your ship to Ithaca, but steal a march upon them." Agamemnon had walked openly into his own house and been murdered. What does the contrast set up?

Penelope tells the nurse to move the bed out of the chamber. Odysseus, who has out-thought a giant and a goddess, bursts out that no man could shift a bed built round a living olive trunk. The poem adds: "She said this to try him." What is the contrast?

Passing the Sirens, the crew row on with wax in their ears, while the bound Odysseus makes signs "by frowning to my men that they should set me free." What does the contrast between commander and crew show?

Teiresias (Tiresias) tells Odysseus among the dead: "I do not think that you will escape the eye of Poseidon, who still nurses his bitter grudge against you for having blinded his son." Why is the sea-god hostile?

The opening lines say Odysseus could not save his men, "for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion." What does the poem show happening once they kill and eat those cattle on Thrinacia?

Athena covers Odysseus with wrinkles and rags before he goes up to his own house. Lying awake in Book XX he works out how, "single handed as he was," he could kill so large a body of men. Why does he keep the disguise on?

Polyphemus prays that if Odysseus must get home at all, "let him do so late and in sore plight after losing all his men... let him reach his home in another man's ship." How does the poem carry that out?

Which statement about Odysseus does the Odyssey NOT support?

Which statement about Odysseus does the Odyssey NOT support?