The crew cut open a sealed ox-hide while their captain sleeps and land is already in sight, and the winds burst out and drive the fleet back the way it came. Whose gift have they opened?

Scouts sent inland are directed to the house of a king named Antiphates; his people swarm the cliffs, hurl rocks and spear the men like fishes in the landlocked harbor. Which ships get out?

A house of cut stone stands in the middle of a forest, ringed by drugged wolves and lions that fawn on strangers like hounds, and a woman sings at a loom inside. Whose house have the scouts reached?

A young crewman, drunk and sleeping in the cool away from the others, hears the crew bustling below, jumps up, forgets the staircase and breaks his neck. Who is he, and where does he fall from?

Odysseus digs his trench by the waters of Oceanus, pours the offerings, cuts the sheep's throats and sits with his sword over the blood. Which ghost reaches him first?

A great wheel of wax is cut up and kneaded soft; a man is bound upright to the crosspiece halfway up the mast; when he signals to be freed the rowers only bind him tighter. Which passage is this?

A month of contrary wind pins the ship on the sun-god's island; the corn and wine give out and the men fish with hook and line. What do they do while Odysseus is inland praying and then falls asleep?

Circe tells Odysseus to hug Scylla's rock and drive the ship past at full speed rather than arm himself and fight her. What is her reasoning?

Entering the strait Odysseus tells the coxswain to steer away from the steaming rapids and hug the rock, but says nothing at all about the monster on that rock. Why does he keep quiet?

Nine days and nights at the rudder without rest, and the captain finally drops into a light sleep in sight of the stubble fires of home. What do his men decide is inside the sack Aeolus gave him?

Circe agrees to send Odysseus on his way, but tells him there is another voyage he must make before he can sail homeward. What must he do first, and why?

Odysseus is asleep inland when Eurylochus argues for slaughtering the sun-god's cattle. Which argument wins the starving crew over?

At the trench Odysseus's mother sits close by without a word and does not seem to know her own son. What does Teiresias tell him to do about that?

Teiresias tells Odysseus that he may yet reach Ithaca after much hardship, but that one thing will bring the destruction of both his ship and his men. Survival turns on what?

As the ship rows past their meadow, the Sirens call Odysseus by name and urge him to stop and listen to their song. What do they promise him?

The ghost of Achilles tells Odysseus he "would rather be a paid servant in a poor man's house and be above ground than king of kings among the dead." What does the line reveal?

Blown back to Aeolus's island, Odysseus kneels as a suppliant and asks for help a second time. Aeolus calls him the vilest of mankind and orders him off the island. What has Aeolus concluded?

As the ship nears Scylla, Odysseus forgets one of Circe's warnings. What does he do?

Teiresias and then Circe both warn that harming the cattle of the sun costs ship and crew. On Thrinacia the men slaughter them while Odysseus sleeps. What follows once they put out to sea?

At the Sirens Circe's orders are followed exactly: wax in the rowers' ears, the captain lashed to the mast, and the bonds pulled tighter when he signals to be freed. What is the result of that obedience?

In the strait Odysseus does as Circe said and keeps the ship close under the monster's rock rather than the whirlpool. What does that obedience cost him, and what does it save?

Elpenor's body was left unwaked and unburied at Circe's house while the crew sailed for the land of the dead. What does Odysseus do about it when the ship comes back to Aeaea?

Which statement about the visit to the dead is NOT true?

Which statement about the stay on Circe's island is NOT true?

Which statement about the strait and the sun-god's island is NOT true?