This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Greek Classics > The Odyssey > The Odyssey – Quiz 14 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Odyssey Quiz 14 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What negative trait does Odysseus's crew show? A) Bravery. B) Greed. C) Pride. D) Sleepiness. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Greed. 2. Creatures from Greek mythology which enticed sailors to their destruction with their irresistibly beautiful singing A) Indignant. B) Siren. C) Coax. D) Plight. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Siren. 3. At the beginning of the epic, Odysseus is being held captive by whom? A) Odysseus is held captive by Poseidon. B) Odysseus is held captive by Calypso. C) Odysseus is held captive by Circe. D) Odysseus is held captive by Polyphemus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Odysseus is held captive by Calypso. 4. What does Odysseus ask his crew to do when they approach the Sirens? A) To row faster and ignore the Sirens' songs. B) To cover their ears with their hands and close their eyes. C) To jump into the sea and swim away from the Sirens. D) To sing along with the Sirens' songs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To cover their ears with their hands and close their eyes. 5. What literary style is The Odyssey? A) Epic poetry. B) Horror novel. C) Romantic comedy. D) Science fiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epic poetry. 6. Mammoth Mountain is named this because it's A) Strong. B) Important. C) Cold. D) Huge. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Huge. 7. An epic hero risks ..... for glory or the greater good of society. A) His reputation. B) His health. C) Death. D) A limb. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Death. 8. Which stage of the journey is best represented by the excerpt from the graphic novel? A) Call to Adventure. B) Crossing the threshold. C) Return Home. D) Tests or Trials. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tests or Trials. 9. Which line helps develop the idea that hospitality was valued in Ithaca? A) Eumaeus:Odysseus welcomed beggars and strangers from far and wide. Now I do my best to carry on his legacy of kindness. B) Antinous:Is it not enough that we let you dine among us nobles?. C) Athena:No one must know that you have returned. I will disguise you. D) Odysseus:It is tragic that he never returned from Troy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eumaeus:Odysseus welcomed beggars and strangers from far and wide. Now I do my best to carry on his legacy of kindness. 10. Some of the main values of the ancient Greeks include ..... A) Home/family. B) Faithfulness and loyalty. C) Hospitality. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 11. Lonely grief; misery A) Profusion. B) Restitution. C) Revulsion. D) Desolation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Desolation. 12. Where does Odysseus finally arrive in Scene 5? A) Ithaca. B) Mount Olympus. C) Troy. D) The sea . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ithaca. 13. What did Circe ask Odysseus to promise the dead in Hades? A) To sacrifice a black sheep. B) To sacrifice a barren heifer. C) To sacrifice a golden goblet. D) To sacrifice a magic potion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To sacrifice a barren heifer. 14. Who finds Odysseus at sea and helps him? A) Circe. B) Enya. C) Aphrodite. D) Ino. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ino. 15. How was Telemachus described at the beginning of Book One? A) Assertive. B) Passive. C) Frustrated. D) Self-assured. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Passive. 16. After Odysseus tricks the Cyclops, how do he and his men leave the cave? A) They make a hole and leave out of it. B) Odysseus kills the Cyclops. C) The blind Cyclops moves the stone that blocks the cave's entrance. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The blind Cyclops moves the stone that blocks the cave's entrance. 17. Who offered Odysseus a ship in exchange for hearing Odysseus's stories? A) Circe. B) Alcinous. C) Elpenor. D) Calypso. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alcinous. 18. In Tales from the Odyssey, the main character, Odysseus is ..... A) An ancient god. B) A famous Trojan warrior. C) A leader of Greek soldiers. D) An excellent sailor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A leader of Greek soldiers. 19. Who tells Penelope that the beggar who killed the suitors is Odysseus? A) Eurynome. B) Telemachus. C) Laertes. D) Euryclea. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Euryclea. 20. What is the meaning of the word:Soothe? A) Calm. B) Brave. C) Warn. D) Scream. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Calm. 21. In order to achieve his Arete, Odysseus must learn how to master the concept of ..... A) Dharma. B) Humility. C) Vengeance. D) Hubris. E) Love. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Humility. 22. The pirates ..... the cruise ship. A) Had a nice vacation on. B) Sunbathed on. C) Plundered. D) Captured. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Plundered. 23. What is Odysseus compared to when he is crying? A) A mountain lion stalking its prey. B) A grieving woman. C) A dying soldier. D) A cunning hero. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A grieving woman. 24. In The Odyssey, what do the Sirens use to lure sailors to their doom? A) Their enchanting voices. B) Their magical powers. C) Their beautiful appearance. D) Their delicious food. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Their enchanting voices. 25. What does Circe do? A) She traps Odysseus on her island for 7 years. B) She helps him escape Charybdis. C) She eats all of his men. D) She turns his men in pigs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She turns his men in pigs. 26. Who is the person that turns Odysseus's men into pigs? A) Athena. B) Circe. C) Hades. D) Calypso. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Circe. 27. Parallel plots:When Telemachus is visited by Athena in the form of Mentes, where is Odysseus? A) Troy. B) Piles. C) Health. D) Sparta. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Health. 28. You must ..... with your work. A) Frantically. B) Valiantly. C) Make haste. D) Hurling. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Make haste. 29. What is the name of Odysseus's faithful dog? A) Aeneas. B) Ajax. C) Argos. D) Achilles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Argos. 30. Homer is best known for The Illiad and A) The Canterbury Tales. B) The Simpsons. C) The Odyssey. D) The Allegory of the Cave. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Odyssey. 31. Circe told Odysseys "Tiresius has the answers you seek." What does seek mean? A) Travel. B) Find. C) Look for. D) Want. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Look for. 32. Why is Athena considered a mentor in the Odyssey? A) She tells Odysseus what to do to find his father, Laertes. B) She tells Nestor what to do to find his father. C) She tells Telemachus what to do to find his father. D) She tells Odysseus what to do to find his son. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She tells Telemachus what to do to find his father. 33. The men opened Aeolus's bag of wind. Odysseus yelled, "You ..... ! What have you done?" A) Fools. B) Sailors. C) Gods. D) Oars. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fools. 34. When did the Minoan civilization collapse? A) 2000 B.C. B) 1450 B.C. C) 1200 B.C. D) 850 B.C. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 1450 B.C. 35. An area of land; a region A) Appalled. B) Terrain. C) Cannibal. D) Dismember. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Terrain. 36. Which goddess held Odysseus on her island for 7 years? A) Cassandra. B) Athena. C) Circe. D) Calypso. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Calypso. 37. Who lives on the island of Ogygia? A) Cyclops. B) Calypso. C) Athena. D) Circe. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Calypso. 38. Which two characters fit the loyal servant archetype? A) Circe and Calypso. B) Athena and Zeus. C) Eumaeus and Philoetius. D) Penelope and Telemachus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Eumaeus and Philoetius. 39. The beautiful witch-goddess who changes Odysseus's men into pigs. A) Calibration. B) Calypso. C) Circle. D) Circe. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Circe. 40. Who was the king of Sparta visited by the son of Odysseus? A) Priam. B) Agamemnon. C) Nestor. D) Menelaus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Menelaus. 41. Giving something that is nonhuman human characteristics A) Epithet. B) Personification. C) Epic simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Personification. 42. Which event from the Odyssey is described below?Odysseus receives help from Hermes who gives him a special plant to resist a spell which has already transformed his crew. Odysseus accepts help and turns an enemy into an ally. A) The encounter with Circe. B) The encounter with Tiresias in the Underworld. C) The encounter with Calypso. D) The encounter with the Lotus Eaters. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The encounter with Circe. 43. What did Athena send over Penelope's eyelids as she went upstairs with her handmaids? A) A vision of the future. B) A magical potion. C) A sense of peace. D) Sweet sleep. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sweet sleep. 44. How do Odysseus and his men escape Cyclops's cave? A) They poison him, and Cyclops dies. B) They call on Athene, and she frees them. C) They blind him and escape underneath sheep. D) They escape by knocking down the boulder with goats. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They blind him and escape underneath sheep. 45. ..... gives Odysseus a plant to protect him against Circe's spell. A) Hermes. B) Athena. C) Zeus. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hermes. 46. How did the islanders greet the men? A) With smiles. B) With anger. C) With confusion. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) With smiles. 47. What were Penelope's suitors doing while Odysseus was thought to be dead? A) Partying and spending Telemachu's inheritance. B) Fighting in the Trojan War. C) Searching for Odysseus. D) Helping Penelope provide leadership in Ithaca. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Partying and spending Telemachu's inheritance. 48. What goddess did Paris choose as the "fairest" A) Aphrodite. B) Athena. C) Helen. D) Hera. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aphrodite. 49. Which is more likely to move withhaste? A) A zebra being chased by a lion. B) A lion napping in the sun. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A zebra being chased by a lion. 50. The gods and goddesses of Mount Olympus are known as ..... A) Being kind and helpful. B) A family that quarrels and fights. C) Not having any powers. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A family that quarrels and fights. 51. Theme is often representative of the values of the society a text was written under A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 52. Which of his own relatives does Odysseus see in the Underworld? A) Son. B) Father. C) Mother. D) Wife. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mother. 53. Which came first ..... A) The Odyssey. B) The iliad. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The iliad. 54. What did Odysseus use to make his bed look taller and stronger than before? A) A special potion. B) A new frame. C) Extra blankets. D) Athena's magic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Athena's magic. 55. Which of event from the Odyssey is described below?Odysseus men are not self-controlled. They no longer want to return home since they are drugged. Their actions almost destroy their chances of returning home. A) The encounter with Circe. B) The encounter with the Cicones. C) The encounter with the Lotus Eaters. D) The Encounter with Aeolus' Bag. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The encounter with the Lotus Eaters. 56. What is Penelope's test for Odysseus? A) Recognizing their bed because no man but Odysseus had seen it. B) Recognizing their dog and calling him by name. C) Recognizing Telemachus as his son. D) Recognizing their servants. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Recognizing their bed because no man but Odysseus had seen it. 57. How does Telemachus' journey reflect or mirror Odysseus' journey? A) They both travel to unknown lands, face tests, receive aid, and return in a time of need. B) They both learn to overcome their hubris and develop humility. C) They fall into temptation and struggle to deal with the consequences of their actions. D) They both learn to appreciate and respect the wishes of the gods. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They both travel to unknown lands, face tests, receive aid, and return in a time of need. 58. At the beginning of the tale what challenge do the men face? A) A storm. B) Starvation. C) Sea sickness. D) Fatigue. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A storm. 59. Part B:Which word(s) best helps you understand what detest means? A) "Hate". B) "Help". C) "Not welcoming". D) "Obviously". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "Hate". 60. Who tells Menelaus the news of Odysseus being imprisoned by Calypso in Book 4? A) Athena. B) Proteus. C) Nestor. D) Helen. 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