27. What forshadowing of future events occurs in this book?

28. What customs of host and guest are revealed in this book?

29. What omens occur and how do the characters know they are favorable?

30. Who does telemachus take withhim?

31. Discuss the appropriateness of the simile that describes the meeting between Telemachus and Eumaeous

32. What is ironic about odysseus’ first speech to telemachus

33. How does telemachus know that the beggar is divinely favored?

34. WHen does odysseus weep in ithica? Contrast these scenes with earlier ones.

35. What final recognitions take place in this section?

36. Who controls the store room and why?

37. How does telemachus prove himself equal yet obedient to his father concerning the bow?

38. Whom does odysseus kill and why?

39. Why does homer use the similies of the fly and the cows, the the vulture, in his description of the battle?

40. Who is saved from death? Why?

41. How is odysseus’ piety emphasized?