Odysseus tells the Phaeacians his adventures in order. Which order is his?

After the year on Circe's island, which order does Odysseus's account of the rest of the voyage follow?

Which order matches Odysseus's stay among the Phaeacians?

Which order matches Odysseus's first days back on Ithaca?

Which order matches what happens to the disguised Odysseus once he reaches his own house?

Which order matches the contest of the bow?

Which order matches the end of the poem, after Odysseus kills the suitors?

Which order matches the Aeolus episode as Odysseus tells it?

Which order matches what happens on Thrinacia, the island of the Sun's cattle?

Which order matches Telemachus's journey home from Sparta?

A king's daughter drives a mule cart down to the washing pools, keeps her head when a naked shipwrecked stranger crawls out of the bushes, and gives him clothes and directions to her father's palace. Who is she?

At the Phaeacian court a blind singer, whom the muse loved so much that she gave him song and took his sight, sings of Troy until the guest pulls his cloak over his head and weeps. Who is the singer?

When Poseidon smashes his raft, a sea goddess who had once been a mortal woman surfaces beside Odysseus and lends him her veil to keep him afloat until he can reach land. Who helps him?

One officer hangs back outside the goddess's door while the rest of the party go in and are turned into pigs; the same man later talks the starving crew into killing the Sun's cattle. Who is he?

A young man of no great sense drinks too much, sleeps on the goddess's roof, falls and breaks his neck, and is then the first ghost to meet Odysseus at the house of the dead. Who is he?

Among the dead Odysseus meets a woman he had left alive when he sailed for Troy. She tells him longing for him was what killed her, and three times he springs at her and cannot hold her. Who is she?

A slave who was born a king's son keeps the pigs on the far side of the island, feeds a ragged stranger, gives him his own cloak for the night, and will not hear that his master is dead. Who is he?

Told to wash the beggar's feet, the old woman who had nursed Odysseus as a baby feels a scar above his knee and lets his foot drop so that the water spills over the floor. Who is she?

Of all the men courting Penelope, one hated what the others did. He was their diviner and sat by the mixing bowl, and he is the first of them to take up the bow and fail. Who is he?

The goatherd kicks the disguised Odysseus on the road into town, jeers at him again in the hall, and during the fighting slips to the storeroom to carry armor out to the suitors. Who is he?

One suitor brings the beggar bread and pledges him in a golden goblet, wishing him better times. The beggar warns him to get home before the master returns, and he walks away with his head bowed. Who is he?

Zeus sends one god down over the sea to Calypso's island with the order that Odysseus must be let go. Which god carries the message?

Safely at sea, Odysseus shouts back to the blinded giant that it was "the valiant warrior Odysseus, son of Laertes, who lives in Ithaca". What does the boast cost him?

The crew untie the sack of winds when Ithaca is so close that they can "see the stubble fires burning". What does that moment cause?

What does the Laestrygonian attack at Telepylus do to Odysseus's expedition?

What does the killing of the Sun's cattle on Thrinacia bring about?

Circe will not let Odysseus sail on until he has gone down to the house of the dead. What does that journey actually get him?

Athena shrivels Odysseus into a bald, bleary-eyed old beggar in rags before he goes anywhere near his own house. What does the disguise let him do?

Poseidon turns the returning Phaeacian ship to stone within sight of its own harbor. What does that establish?

On the dung heap outside his own gate a flea-bitten old hound lifts his head, drops his ears and wags his tail at the beggar, and then dies. What does the scene establish?

Penelope tells the nurse to carry the bed out of the bedchamber, and her husband bursts out that no living man could shift it. What does her trick establish?

With an arrow already through Antinous's throat, Eurymachus offers to pay back everything the suitors have eaten, a fine worth twenty oxen from each man. What does Odysseus's refusal establish?

"As a fisherman, seated, spear in hand, upon some jutting rock throws bait into the water to deceive the poor little fishes... even so did Scylla land these panting creatures on her rock." Which convention is this?

Ctesippus throws an ox's foot at the ragged beggar and the suitors laugh at a tramp who could never string a bow. The listener has already watched Athena disguise the master of the house. What is the term for that gap?

A seer tells the laughing suitors: "There is a shroud of darkness drawn over you from head to foot... the walls and roof-beams drip blood; the gate of the cloisters... full of ghosts." Which device is at work?

Odysseus has escaped the cave and is safely out at sea when, against his crew's begging, he shouts his own name back at Polyphemus. Which term names the flaw that moment shows?

Which term names the homecoming that is the whole subject of the poem, the thing Odysseus refuses immortality on Calypso's island in order to reach?

The poem uses one turn for the swineherd alone: "To this you answered, O swineherd Eumaeus..." The poet breaks off narrating and speaks straight to a character. What is that called?

The suitors eat an absent host's herds, court his wife in his own hall, and throw furniture at a beggar who has come to his door. Which of the poem's customs are they trampling?

Books 9 to 12 are not told by the poet at all: the Cyclops, Circe, the dead and the Sirens are all narrated aloud by Odysseus himself to Alcinous's court. What is this structural device called?

Achilles's ghost tells Odysseus, "I 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 this do to the poem's idea of glory?

The lotus, Circe's drugged cup and Calypso's offer of endless youth all threaten Odysseus and his men with the same thing. What is it?

The opening says Odysseus could not save his men, "for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion." Which theme does the poem set out at the very start?

Which statement about Odysseus's voyage home is NOT true?

Which statement about Penelope is NOT true?

Which statement about the gods in the Odyssey is NOT true?

Which statement about how Odysseus comes home and reclaims his house is NOT true?

Odysseus calls himself Noman to the Cyclops, spins a false Cretan history for Eumaeus and for Penelope, and wears a beggar's rags in his own hall. What does that pattern say about him?

After the killing, the dead suitors' fathers arm and march out under Eupeithes to take revenge. How does the poem settle the quarrel?

Eumaeus and Philoetius are armed and fight beside Odysseus, Melanthius carries arms to the suitors, and the maids who took suitors as lovers are hanged. Which theme does this sorting develop?