The Odyssey

Question or Hint Answer or Word
  1. Who is the cunning hero and protagonist of The Odyssey? Odysseus (wrong answers: Hector, Achilles, Agamemnon)
  2. Which city did Odysseus spend ten years fighting to conquer? Troy (wrong answers: Ithaca, Thebes, Sparta)
  3. Which goddess regularly assists Odysseus and advocates for him? Athena (wrong answers: Artemis, Hera, Aphrodite)
  4. What is the name of Odysseus’s loyal wife, who waited many years for his return? Penelope (wrong answers: Clytemnestra, Helen, Andromache)
  5. How does Odysseus outsmart the Cyclops Polyphemus? By telling him his name is 'Nobody' (Odysseus’s clever ruse) (wrong answers: By offering him a golden apple, By sneaking past while invisible, By bargaining with Zeus)
  6. Odysseus's journey home took only a few weeks. False (It took years!!) (wrong answers: True)
  7. Penelope remained faithful to Odysseus during his entire absence. True (wrong answers: False)

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