The Odyssey Quiz 11 (20 MCQs)

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1. What was the name of the Cyclops that Odysseus stabbed in the eye?

Correct Answer: D) Polyphemus.

2. Fervently

Correct Answer: B) Passionately.

3. The greek belief in showing hospitality to strangers is called .....

Correct Answer: C) Xenia.

4. This god is in charge of the Oceans, Seas, and Rivers.

Correct Answer: B) Poseidon.

5. Why is Odysseus away from home?

Correct Answer: C) He spent 10 years fighting in the Trojan War.

6. What group of adjectives BEST describe the place of Alcinous?

Correct Answer: A) Luscious, majestic, elaborate, and splendid.

7. The Odyssey is the epic based on?

Correct Answer: C) Journey.

8. Having characteristics like a pig or hog

Correct Answer: B) Swinish.

9. The Odyssey took place after which war?

Correct Answer: C) Trojan War.

10. Odysseus says, "Wise Athena, you brought me home, protected my family, and restored peace to my kingdom." What does restored mean?

Correct Answer: C) Brought back.

11. To humiliate, embarrass or degrade someone

Correct Answer: B) Abe.

12. Odysseus is loved by all of the gods except .....

Correct Answer: C) Poseidon.

13. Who helps Odysseus?

Correct Answer: A) Athena.

14. Who is the Muse?

Correct Answer: D) Goddess who inspires art, literature, and science.

15. N. very hard work.

Correct Answer: B) Work.

16. What was the big problem with Paris eloping with Helen?

Correct Answer: A) Helen was already married to Menelaus.

17. In King Menelaus' story in Book 4, which Hero reached his soil again safely only to be ambushed and killed by Aegisthus' men, in his own hall.

Correct Answer: D) Agamemnon.

18. The other Cyclopses do not help Polyphemus because they

Correct Answer: C) Are tricked by Odysseus's cleverness.

19. Laertes

Correct Answer: C) Odysseus' father.

20. A small piece of tasty food; little pieces of information

Correct Answer: C) Tidbit.