THE ODYSSEY: Movie Questions
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After reading The Odyssey with your class, show the movie and give your students these questions to guide their thinking during the film (1997 version with Armand Assante and Vanessa Williams).
Answer Key:
1. Queen Penelope
2. Telemachus is born.
3. King Agamemnon and King Menelaus
4. He prays to Athena, goddess of war.
5. If the Telemachus has a beard on his face and Odysseus has not yet returned, she must choose another (remarry).
6. They have a tree growing in the middle of their bedroom.
7. Athena appears to him.
8. Achilles fought with him against the Trojans.
9. The Greeks hide inside a large wooden horse (made from their ships) and the Trojans wheel it inside their city walls. Then they come out at night and defeat the Trojans.
10. Suffer
11. Polyphemus the Cyclops
12. Nobody
13. Noman
14. The god of the wind gives Odysseus a sack of the East/North/South winds so that the remaining West wind will blow him and his men back home to Ithaca.
15. BUT his men grow jealous and curious and secretly open the sack, blowing them off course again.
16. Hermes
17. Circe has cast a spell on the men and changed them into animals.
18. She becomes overcome by grief (when Odysseus has still not come home), she assumes he is dead, and drowns herself in order to be with him in the afterlife.
19. In the movie, Odysseus stays with Circe for 5 years, but in the book he is with her only 1 year.
20. He must travel to Hades, the Underworld, to speak to the prophet Tiresias. There is fire everywhere and a river of lava. Ghosts gather around him and he recognizes many of them.
21. A ram.
22. The ghosts want the ram’s blood.
23. (Answers may vary)
24. Calypso’s island
25. In the movie, Eumaeus immediately recognizes Odysseus, but in the book Odysseus tests him to see how loyal he has been.
26. (Character Dress Up Day is a fun culminating activity.)
27. Red
28. Eumaeus the swineherd
29. His mother, Penelope
30. Odysseus really wonders whether Penelope has been true to him, whether her heart is still with him.
31. Odysseus, disguised as an old beggar man
32. Antinous, one of the suitors
33. He stops fighting when Odysseus reminds him that it is not the right time to be angry.
34. Eurycleia recognizes the scar on Odysseus’ leg and realizes it is her master.
35. When the beggar man tells Penelope that Odysseus wishes to hold her hands, “hold her in his eyes” and kiss her lips, she cries because all she wants is Odysseus back.
36. The winner must first string the bow and then shoot an arrow cleanly through all twelve axes in order to win Penelope’s hand in marriage.
37. When the beggar shoots the arrow through all the axes, he turns back into the younger Odysseus.
38. Antinous is speared to a wall by Telemachus.
39. The maid comes out of the maidchamber to let the suitors out and is shot with an arrow along with Eurymachus. In the book, the disloyal maids are made to cleanse the chamber and then killed.
40. Penelope is his world.
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