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PART 1 OF ODYSSEY (THIS IS JUST A SUMMARY OF EACH CHAPTER) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS, GRADED A+/ VERIFIED. The Adventures of Odysseus - -In the opening lines, Homer calls on the Muses to help him tell Odysseus' tale of his journey from Troy to Ithaca, his homeland. Sailing from Troy - -● The Odyssey begins when Odysseus arrives in Phaeacia after escaping from Calypso. He tells his story to Alcinous, who offers to provide him transportation home. ● Both Calypso and Circe kept Odysseus for themselves at one point. However, Odysseus remained faithful to his wife Penelope. ● Odysseus and his men first landed on Ismarus, where they plundered the villages. The men, the Cicones, fought Odysseus' men and some of the Greeks were killed before Odysseus' crew could escape. The Lotus Eaters - -● When the Greeks land on the island of the Lotus Eaters, Odysseus sends men to find out what the island's people are like. The Lotus Eaters give the Greeks the lotus flower to eat. ● The lotus flower causes people to want to stay on the island forever. ● Odysseus forces the men who ate the flower back on the ship and they leave the island. The Cyclops (pt. 1) - -● A one-eyed giant ● Cyclopes are uncivilized. ● When Odysseus and his men go searching the island, they bring a strong wine with them as an offering to the creatures they are sure to run into. They find a Cyclops' cave and wait inside. ● The Cyclops closes off the entrance with a boulder so that Odysseus and his men cannot escape. Every night and morning, the Cyclops eats two of Odysseus' men. ● Odysseus makes a type of spear. When the Cyclops returns, he offers the Cyclops the wine and the Cyclops asks for Odysseus' name (He replies "Nobody.") The Cyclops (pt. 2) - -● Cyclops falls asleep, and so Odysseus and his men stab the Cyclops in his eye with the spear. When Cyclops screams in pain, the other Cyclopes ask who is attacking him. Cyclops says "Nobody," which amuses the Cyclopes. ● In the morning, Odysseus ties his men underneath the Cyclops' sheep. The Cyclops stands in the doorway to feel for Odysseus' men, but since they are under the sheep, the Greeks are able to get out of the cave. ● When the Greeks are safely aboard the ship with the sheep, Odysseus taunts the Cyclops, revealing his real name. Odysseus' men beg him to stop because it is angering the Cyclops, so he throws rocks at the ship. ● The Cyclops reveals that he heard a prophecy once that someone named Odysseus would cause the Cyclops to lose his eye; however, he never thought Odysseus would be a man. The Land of the Dead - -● After many other mishaps, Odysseus ends up the island where Circe lives. She turns the Greeks, except for Odysseus, into pigs. He tricks her into turning the men back, but she tells Odysseus that he must speak with the deceased prophet Tiresias. ● Once in the Land of the Dead, Odysseus makes an offering to make th