Athena comes to Ithaca disguised as Mentes, an old family friend, and pushes Telemachus to call an assembly and sail for news of his father. What does the visit establish?

The poem opens on Olympus while Poseidon is away feasting among the Ethiopians, and the other gods settle that Odysseus is to go back to Ithaca. What does that council establish?

Telemachus calls the assembly, bursts into tears and dashes down his staff; Antinous blames Penelope, Eurymachus threatens the prophet, and Leiocritus breaks the meeting up. What does the assembly establish?

Nestor tells Telemachus all he knows of the voyage home from Troy, but can say nothing of what became of Odysseus, and sends him on to Sparta by chariot with his son Peisistratus. What does Pylos establish?

At Sparta Menelaus repeats what the old man of the sea told him. The third man "is Odysseus who dwells in Ithaca... sorrowing bitterly in the house of the nymph Calypso." What does this establish?

Book 4 closes with the suitors' ship anchored in ambush at Asteris, the rocky islet in mid channel between Ithaca and Samos. What does that ending establish?

At the assembly one suitor blames Penelope, telling how she wove a burial pall for Laertes by day and unpicked the stitches by torchlight at night for three years, until one of her maids gave her away. Who says this?

A suitor rounds on the old prophet after the eagle omen: "Go home, old man, and prophesy to your own children, or it may be worse for them." Which suitor says it?

At Sparta the talk of Odysseus sets the whole room weeping. Someone quietly drugs the wine with an Egyptian herb that banishes all care and sorrow. Who does it?

The suitors lay their plan to murder Telemachus inside the court, and a man servant standing outside overhears them and carries the news straight up to Penelope. Who tells her?

Two eagles wheel and tear at one another over the assembly. One man reads the sign: Odysseus is close at hand, exactly as he foretold when the Argives sailed, home in the twentieth year and known to nobody. Who is he?

The old nurse admits to Penelope that Telemachus "made me take my solemn oath that I would not tell you anything for some ten or twelve days." Why did he want that silence?

The suitors jeer at Telemachus and hand him no ship, so Athena takes Mentor's shape, borrows a vessel from Noemon and rounds up a crew herself. Why is that necessary?

Becalmed twenty days off Pharos with his men starving, Menelaus lies in a pit under a seal skin and seizes the old man of the sea as he sleeps among his seals. Why go to such trouble?

News reaches Ithaca that Telemachus has sailed. Antinous answers, "I will lie in wait for him in the straits between Ithaca and Samos." Why does the voyage move him to that?

Menelaus offers Telemachus a chariot and three horses as a parting gift, and Telemachus asks for a piece of plate instead. Why does he turn the horses down?

Which order matches the way Books 1-4 give the events?

Which order matches the way the poem tells the story of the secret voyage?

Which statement about Books 1-4 is NOT true?

Which statement about the visit to Sparta is NOT true?