Answer:
Odysseus tests his father to check his loyalty and to know if Laertes truly is his father and not someone else in disguise.
Explanation:
In the book 24 of "The Odyssey" Odysseus goes to Ithaca, to his father's farm. Laertes was the name of Odysseus's father. In this book, Odysseus travels back to the land to meet his father alone.
<u>When Odysseus enters the house of Laertes, his father, he observes that his father had become aged now because of the grief for his son and wife. Laertes was no able to recognize Odysseus because of his old age. </u>
<u>Odysseus test the loyalty of Laertes and to test his true identity did not reveal himself immediately but when his father began crying he revealed his identity.</u>
The meaning of the three words at the end of your question are:
- Receptacle: a container or device, something that receives or holds something. [In this case, it refers to how a churchyard only keeps hold of dead bodies and nothing else.]
- Consummation: the end, the conclusion of something. [It was gratifying to finally have reached the objective after enduring so much pain.]
- Obliterated: something that has been erased from memory. [The revelation was so inmense that all the work done to achieve the results was suddenly forgotten.]
