1. How long did it take Odysseus to return home from the Trojan War?
    10 years
2. According to Google Maps, how long should this trip have taken?
    2 weeks
3. According to archeological evidence, when did the Trojan War occur?
    12thcentury BCE
4. When did Homer compose The Odyssey?
    8thcentury BCE
5. What is the definition of “epic poem”?
    A long narrative poem; on a serious subject; written in a grand or elevated style; centered on a larger-            than-life hero
6. Who is Odysseus’ wife?
    Penelope   
7. Who is Odysseus’ son?
    Telemachus
8. What happens in the cave of the Cyclops?
      Odysseus and his men break into the cyclops cave and start feasting on his goat cheese, the cyclops comes back and is mad and starts to eat the men. Odysseus gets the cyclops drunk and stabs him in the eye and calls himself “noman” so then when the cyclops cries out to other cyclops’ he would say “noman is hurting me, noman is killing me”. The rest of the cyclops thinks he’s fine. Odysseus can’t stand nit to get credit so he says his name and the cyclops come and kills all of his men.
9. Is Odysseus a hero? Why or why not?
    Yes, he had an extraordinary and that’s a hero to them.
10. What is considered one of the most beautiful lines in all of Homer?
      “… and so, she too rejoiced her gaze upon her husband, her white arms round him pressed as though forever”

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