The Odyssey, Suitors To Challenge Question Preview (ID: 29259)

a) no

b) yes

c)

d)

a) Penelope's maids tell the suitors exactly what she is doing

b) she finishes the shroud

c) she decides not to make it because she does not like the person who died

d)

a) she kills them

b) she tells them she needs to make a death shroud, but she weaves during the day and unweaves at night

c) she tells them she's a virgin

d)

a) 3 months

b) 3 years

c) 7 years

d)

a) eating all of Odysseus' food and he has to beg for it

b) killing Odysseus' family

c) selling his cattle

d)

a) weave her a basket

b) kill a beggar

c) String Odysseus' bow and shoot an arrow through 12 ax handles

d)

a) He makes up a story about his life and tells her that he has met Odysseus and he will be coming home soon.

b) He tells her he has met Odysseus and he is living with Calypso

c) that he doesn't love her

d)

a) kill a calf for dinner

b) bring him the beggar, who is really Odysseus, although she doesn't know it

c) kill the suitors out of the castle

d)

a) a nice, pleasant man

b) cruel, greedy, hypocritical

c) Thin, untrusting

d)

a) Telemachus is supposed to act normal, Odysseus is going to go into the castle as a beggar, and son will steal all the weapons

b) set fire to the castle after they get the cattle out

c) tell Penelope that Odysseus is home, and kill all of the men as they try to fight

d)

a) 2 spears, 2 swords, 2 shields

b) 3 spears, 3 swords, 3 shields

c) 2 guns, 3 horses, 2 spears

d)

a) Zeus

b) Antinous

c) Amberelous

d)

a) Odysseus

b) Eumaneus

c) the suitors, especially Antinous

d)

a) Antinous

b) Eumaneus

c) Zeus

d)

a) Odysseus

b) Antinous

c) Eumaneus

d)