This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Greek Classics > The Odyssey > The Odyssey – Quiz 26 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Odyssey Quiz 26 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Books 9, 10, and 12 of The Odyssey by Homer A) Mood. B) Flashback. C) Tone. D) Foreshadow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flashback. 2. After going through the storm, Odysseus and his men landed on a new island that imposed what? A) Giants. B) Lotus Eaters. C) The Cyclops. D) The Olympians. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lotus Eaters. 3. How is Scylla described physically? A) Giant Dolphin monster. B) Twelve dancing legs and six long necks. C) 20 heads and six legs. D) Giant whirlpool monster. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Twelve dancing legs and six long necks. 4. The 911 operator ..... the emergency crews to handle it. A) Crushed. B) Dispatched. C) Expelled. D) Examined. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dispatched. 5. To behave in a way that belittles or denigrates someone. A) Tarry. B) Consort. C) They were. D) Saunter. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They were. 6. If you loathe something, you ..... it. A) Love. B) Hate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hate. 7. Odysseus is famous for being A) Witty. B) Cunning. C) Kind and caring. D) Honest and straightforward. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cunning. 8. Which god is the supreme ruler over all? A) Hera. B) Zeus. C) Hades. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Zeus. 9. Marked by trembling or shaking A) Tremulous. B) Implacable. C) Harried. D) Ponderous. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tremulous. 10. What was Tantalus' punishment? A) He had to roll a boulder up a hill and it always rolled back down. B) He could never eat or drink because it was out of reach. C) He had to carry water in a jug that was leaking. D) He was chained to a mountain and an eagle pecked at his flesh. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He could never eat or drink because it was out of reach. 11. If a fathom is a measure of depth, what does fathomless most likely mean? A) To be of average depth. B) To be too deep to measure. C) To have no measurement tools. D) To have a measure of width. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To be too deep to measure. 12. What sport did Odysseus excel at? A) Running. B) Boxing. C) Wrestling. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 13. Showing effects of planning or manipulation A) Appalled. B) Contrived. C) Cannibal. D) Dismember. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Contrived. 14. In the context of the Odyssey, the opposite of hubris is ..... A) Humility. B) Passion. C) Perseverance. D) Arete. E) Temptation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Humility. 15. What was the contest Penelope suggested? A) A wrestling match. B) A race to see who can swim around the island fastest. C) String Odysseus's bow and shoot it through the center of 12 ax heads. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) String Odysseus's bow and shoot it through the center of 12 ax heads. 16. Which of these quotations best illustrates typical qualities of an epic hero? A) "We beached her, grinding keel in the soft sand, / and waded in, ourselves, on the sandy beach.". B) "Now, by the gods, I drove my big hand spike / deep in the embers, charring it again, / and cheered my men along with battle talk / to keep their courage up:no quitting now.". C) "In the next land we found were Cyclopes, / giants, louts, without a law to bless them.". D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) "Now, by the gods, I drove my big hand spike / deep in the embers, charring it again, / and cheered my men along with battle talk / to keep their courage up:no quitting now.". 17. What message has Hermes come to Calypso's Island (Ogygia) to deliver? A) Odysseus is banished to Hades. B) Calypso is to free Odysseus. C) Penelope has remained faithful to Odysseus. D) Helios will sink Calypso's island if he doesn't get his cattle back. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Calypso is to free Odysseus. 18. Which situation does not exemplify the theme of life and death? A) Odysseus' men raid Helios' cattle. B) The suitor's contest. C) The battle with the suitors. D) Argos' death. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The suitor's contest. 19. "excessive speed or urgency of movement, A) Devise. B) Suitor. C) Diminish. D) Haste. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Haste. 20. What is a storytelling tradition? A) A book. B) Stories that are passed down by telling them rather than writing them. C) When we sing together. D) None of the above tags9-10.RL.2.1. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stories that are passed down by telling them rather than writing them. 21. Word or phrases of description that are repeated time and again within a work of literature as in "O great contender." A) Epithet. B) Tone. C) Simile. D) Metaphor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epithet. 22. Odysseus' aged father A) Telemachus. B) Laertes. C) Zeus. D) Athena. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Laertes. 23. An old-fashioned term for a man who is trying to convince a woman to marry him. A) Diminish. B) Devise. C) Haste. D) Suitor. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Suitor. 24. The food and drink of the gods A) Ambrosia. B) Indignant. C) Suitor. D) Vengeance. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ambrosia. 25. When a character tells the story, the writer uses the first-person ..... A) Pen. B) Plot. C) Opinion. D) Point of view. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Point of view. 26. Where is Odysseus' home? A) Sparta. B) Ithaca. C) Troy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ithaca. 27. Evil, disgusting A) Succumb. B) Beguiling. C) Vile. D) Scourge. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vile. 28. Who transforms Odysseus's sailors into pigs? A) Calypso. B) Circe. C) Athena. D) Poseidon. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Circe. 29. Deceitfulness, treachery, or skillful cunning; wiliness. A) Guile. B) Prudent. C) Disdain. D) Behold. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Guile. 30. Before they arrived on the island of the cyclops, Odysseus and his men landed on the Island of the ..... Eaters, where the inhabitants lived a carefree life and eating a plant. A) Plant. B) Lotus. C) Lily pad. D) Flower. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lotus. 31. How long was Odysseus away from Ithica? A) 2 months. B) 20 years. C) 1, 000 years. D) 10 years. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 20 years. 32. Who did Odysseus anger that got him stranded on the island with Calypso? A) Ares. B) Poseidon. C) Dionysus. D) Zeus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poseidon. 33. Where is Telemachus when we first see him? A) Ithaca. B) Ismaros. C) The Island of the Lotus Eaters. D) Telepylos. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ithaca. 34. What is the name of the sea monster that creates whirlpools? A) Charybdis. B) Circe. C) Scylla. D) Polyphemus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Charybdis. 35. What did Athena instruct Odysseus to do upon his return to Ithaca? A) Go to Sparta to find his wife, Penelope. B) Hide the gifts in the cave and investigate the situation. C) Seek revenge on the suitors immediately. D) Reveal his true identity to everyone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hide the gifts in the cave and investigate the situation. 36. Which word best helps you understand what detest means? A) "obviously". B) "help". C) "not welcoming". D) "hate". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) "hate". 37. Was Odysseus a warrior by choice? A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 38. What is the Theme or Morale of the story? A) Choose the lessor of two evils. B) Don't trust Odysseus. C) Saving yourself is the best priority. D) Do your best no matter what the world has in store. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Do your best no matter what the world has in store. 39. How many suitors (NOT Odysseus) are able to string Odysseus's bow? A) One. B) Two. C) Three. D) Zero. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Zero. 40. What type of animal does Circe turn the men into? A) Dogs. B) Cattle. C) Pigs. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pigs. 41. What is missing from the following:She likes pizza. A) Subject. B) Verb. C) Both subject and verb. D) Neither, but this is an incomplete thought. E) Neither, this is a complete sentence. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Neither, this is a complete sentence. 42. N. great pain or suffering. A) Companions. B) Cavern. C) Anguish. D) Guile. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Anguish. 43. Who does Odysseus first reveal himself to? A) Eumaeus and Philoetus. B) Telemachus and Eumaeus. C) Antinous and Eurymachus. D) Melanthios and Eurycleia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eumaeus and Philoetus. 44. One's opponent in a contest, conflict, or dispute A) Adversary. B) Companion. C) Squall. D) Graphic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adversary. 45. The student's poor behavior in class lately began to ..... how intelligent she was. A) Dread. B) Despair. C) Jubilant. D) Overshadow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Overshadow. 46. To win Penelope's hand, the suitors must string Odysseus' bow and shoot an arrow through ..... A) 5 cow hearts. B) 16 apples. C) 9 of her most valued rings. D) 12 ax rings. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 12 ax rings. 47. Which is an example of inverted word order? A) Go to school you shall. B) You shall go to school. C) School is fun!. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Go to school you shall. 48. Odysseus and his men visit Aeolus. He is the god of ..... A) The sea. B) The wind. C) Cows. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The wind. 49. Characterized by evil, secret betrayal. A) Plundered. B) Squall. C) Assuage. D) Insidious. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Insidious. 50. Who is the main hero of Homer's epic? A) Odysseus. B) Jason. C) Hercules. D) Achilles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Odysseus. 51. By definition, what makes the Odyssey an epic? A) It is a long lyric poem that expresses a speaker's strong emotions about actual events. B) It is a long narrative poem featuring real people and based on actual historical events. C) It is a long dramatic poem that includes supernatural elements and features long journeys. D) It is a long narrative poem featuring a hero who embodies traits that are important to his culture. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It is a long narrative poem featuring a hero who embodies traits that are important to his culture. 52. "He tossed a piece of fruit-a golden globe wrapped in a velvety skin-and Polites reached up to catch it." What type of fruit is being tossed to Polites? A) A peach. B) A lotus fruit. C) An apple. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A lotus fruit. 53. The men on the ship A) Open the bag of winds. B) Close the bag of winds. C) Get lost on the island. D) Give up. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Open the bag of winds. 54. Scylla is a six-headed ..... A) Siren. B) Worm. C) Bird. D) Serpent. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Serpent. 55. What king finally sends Odysseus home? A) Antinous. B) Alcinous. C) Menelaus. D) Aeolus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Alcinous. 56. Which god/goddess takes a special interest in Odysseus and tries to help him? A) Penelope. B) Athena. C) Hades. D) Zeus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Athena. 57. In book nine, Odysseus' greatest weakness as a leader of men has to do with ..... A) Not wanting to stand out among his men. B) Being unwilling to risk lives. C) Having a negative outlook on life. D) Being hot-headed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Being hot-headed. 58. The Lotus is dangerous to Odysseus because it makes those who eat it want nothing else A) Fall asleep. B) Forget who they are. C) Want nothing else. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Want nothing else. 59. What did Aeolus give to Odysseus? A) A bag of food and water. B) A bag of magic potions. C) A bag of winds. D) A bag of gold and silver. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A bag of winds. 60. Describe the character of Penelope A) Lazy and spoiled. B) Proud and rude. C) Faithful and hard-working. D) Loose and wanton. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Faithful and hard-working. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGreek Classics QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesThe Odyssey Quiz 1The Odyssey Quiz 2The Odyssey Quiz 3The Odyssey Quiz 4The Odyssey Quiz 5The Odyssey Quiz 6The Odyssey Quiz 7The Odyssey Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books