This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Greek Classics > The Odyssey > The Odyssey – Quiz 100 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Odyssey Quiz 100 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The one-eyed monster who tries to eat Odysseus and his men, but is tricked and blinded. A) Polyphemus. B) Polymorphius. C) Polyseidon. D) Polypso. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Polyphemus. 2. A short violent storm A) Squall. B) Insidious. C) Bereft. D) Dispatched. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Squall. 3. What did Penelope do when she recognized Odysseus? A) She ignored him. B) She ran away in fear. C) She scolded him for being away so long. D) She embraced him and kissed him. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She embraced him and kissed him. 4. Who recognizes Odysseus because of an old scar? A) Telemachus. B) Penelope. C) Eumaeus. D) Eurycleia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Eurycleia. 5. Which archetype does Poesidon fit? A) Ally. B) Mentor. C) Shaddow. D) Hero. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shaddow. 6. Who lived on Mt. Olympus? A) The Gods. B) The Humans. C) The Demi-gods. D) Women and children. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Gods. 7. Who sang about the great heroes and the fight between Odysseus and Achilles? A) Seareach. B) Demodocus. C) Laodamas. D) King Alcinous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Demodocus. 8. Unspoken thoughts by a character A) Narration. B) Dialogue. C) Inner monologue. D) Description. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Inner monologue. 9. Which character does not help to establish the epic theme of loyalty? A) Argos. B) Penelope. C) Zeus. D) Eumaeus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Zeus. 10. Part AWhat does the epic simile compare?But the man skilled in all ways of contending, satisfied by the great bow's look and heft, like a musician, like a harper ..... so effortlesslyOdysseus in one motion strung the bow. A) Odysseus to a musician. B) Odysseus to an archer. C) A musician to a harper. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Odysseus to a musician. 11. What is a setting that contains foreign and exotic lands? A) Mythical. B) Mythology. C) Epic Setting. D) Make Believe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Epic Setting. 12. She devised a difficult task for some troublesome men to do. A) Calypso. B) Penelope. C) Circe. D) Muse. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Penelope. 13. The Charybdis was A) A whirlpool. B) A mermaid. C) A monster with many heads. D) A siren. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A whirlpool. 14. Who did Athena tell Odysseus to go to upon his return to Ithaca? A) Telemachus. B) Eumaeus. C) Zeus. D) Alcinous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Eumaeus. 15. No one can prove Homer's existence with any certainty. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 16. Why does Athena disguise Odysseus as a beggar? A) To surprise Penelope. B) To test Telemachus. C) To surprise the suitors. D) To allow Odysseus participate in the contest. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To surprise the suitors. 17. Homeland of Odysseus A) Piles. B) Sparta. C) Ithaca. D) Troy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ithaca. 18. Then he dismembered them and made his meal, gaping and crunching like a mountain lion. A) Simile. B) Imagery. C) Personification. D) Alliteration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simile. 19. Who gave Odysseus a sword made of bronze and silver? A) Athena. B) Seareach. C) Laodamas. D) King Alcinous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Seareach. 20. How does Book V open? A) With an assembly of the suitors in Ithaca. B) With another council of the gods on Olympus. C) With Athena visiting Odysseus. D) With Odysseus weeping and pining on a beach. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) With another council of the gods on Olympus. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGreek Classics QuizzesThe Odyssey Quiz 1The Odyssey Quiz 2The Odyssey Quiz 3The Odyssey Quiz 4The Odyssey Quiz 5The Odyssey Quiz 6The Odyssey Quiz 7The Odyssey Quiz 8The Odyssey Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books