Washing the beggar's feet, a woman's hands close on the scar of a boar's tusk above his knee and she lets the foot drop into the basin. Who has just recognized Odysseus?

Odysseus first throws off the beggar's disguise not in the palace but in the swineherd's hut in the hills. Who is the first person on Ithaca he reveals himself to?

Two servants have just prayed aloud that their master might come home. Odysseus draws his rags aside, shows them the boar scar, and promises them wives and holdings of their own. Who are they?

In the orchard, Laertes will not believe the man beside him is his son until he is given proof. Besides the boar scar, what proof does Odysseus offer?

Penelope has watched the stranger bathed and dressed and is still not satisfied. What finally convinces her that he is her husband?

Odysseus tears off his rags in the hall and shoots the suitor who was lifting a gold cup to drink. Which suitor answers him, "If you are Odysseus, then what you have said is just"?

The homecoming is a sequence of recognitions. Which order matches the last four in the poem?

Which order matches the beggar's time in his own hall?

Once the shooting starts in the hall, which order matches the killing?

The suitors are dead in the cloister. Which order matches what happens next in the house?

Before the suitors take their turns at the great bow, someone else handles it. Who makes the first attempt of all, and who is the first suitor to try?

Odysseus to the suitors after he has thrown off his rags: "Dogs, did you think that I should not come back from Troy?" Which charge does he go on to make against them first?

Of Odysseus at the contest: he "strung it as easily as a skilled bard strings a new peg of his lyre and makes the twisted gut fast at both ends." What does this epic simile stress?

Of the old dog at the gate: "...but Argos died as soon as he had recognised his master." What does the line reveal?

Penelope to Odysseus once she is convinced: "I have been shuddering all the time through fear that someone might come here and deceive me with a lying story." What does this explain?

Antinous throws a footstool at a ragged stranger who is begging for scraps in Odysseus's own hall. Which idea of the poem is he trampling on?

The maids who slept with the suitors are hanged and the goatherd is butchered, while two servants are promised wives, houses and land beside their master's. By what does the poem judge the household?

Odysseus walks into his own hall in rags and lets the suitors insult him for a day rather than announcing himself. What does the poem's idea of nostos require of him beyond arriving on Ithaca?

Which statement about the killing in the hall and what follows is NOT true?

Which statement about Odysseus's return to Ithaca is NOT true?