Book 6 Nausicaa
Nausicaa, washing clothes at the river, finds the shipwrecked stranger.
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Which princess meets Odysseus at the river?
Answer Nausicaa
Nausicaa, daughter of Alcinous, comes to the river.
SourceBook 6, lines 15-19Easy
Why does the princess come down to the river?
Answer To wash clothes
They bring the clothes by wagon to wash them.
SourceBook 6, lines 40-44Medium
What wakes Odysseus where he sleeps?
Answer The noise of their ball game
Their shout at the ball game wakes him.
SourceBook 6, lines 100-104Medium
What does he cover himself with before stepping out?
Answer A leafy branch
He breaks off a leafy branch to cover himself.
SourceBook 6, lines 125-129Deep
Whose knees does Nausicaa tell him to clasp first?
Answer Arete
She says to make his plea to queen Arete, not the king.
SourceBook 6, lines 310-314Medium
The text behind the questions
Questions cover facts stated in Homer's Odyssey, worded by us. No translation is reproduced here. Book and line refer to the Greek line numbering, located in a public-domain English translation.