This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Greek Classics > The Odyssey > The Odyssey – Quiz 111 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Odyssey Quiz 111 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The sound of the crashing waves ..... through the cave, creating an eerie echo that filled the air. A) Subsided. B) Reverberated. C) Vanished. D) Dissipated. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reverberated. 2. To leave something or someone A) Entrap. B) Abandon. C) React. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abandon. 3. Odysseus is recounting the events of his journey to his host, Alcinous, king of the Phaeacians, after having spent seven years on the island of Ogigya with the nymph ..... A) Charybdis. B) Calliope. C) Circe. D) Calypso . Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Calypso . 4. Fighting; dealing with difficulties A) Contending. B) Ladyship. C) Valor. D) Helios. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Contending. 5. In Tales from the Odyssey, 3 of Odysseus' men eat the lotus flowers. Which is most likely true about the flowers? A) The flowers create a pleasant reaction. B) The flowers are rare and hard to grow. C) The flowers have an unusual but mild flavor. D) The flowers can quickly satisfy someones hunger. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The flowers create a pleasant reaction. 6. Odysseus's home is in: A) Sparta. B) Troy. C) Ithaca. D) Athens. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ithaca. 7. How did the Odyssey end? A) Odysseus is captured by the Cyclops and never escapes. B) Odysseus decides to stay with Calypso forever. C) Odysseus dies in battle before reaching Ithaca. D) Odysseus returns home to Ithaca and reunites with his wife Penelope. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Odysseus returns home to Ithaca and reunites with his wife Penelope. 8. Why does Penelope refuse to believe that Odysseus has truly returned A) She had been fooled too many times and heard too many lies. B) He is not able to explain why he has been gone for so lang. C) She was intent on marrying one of the suitors. D) She had become used to a living alone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She had been fooled too many times and heard too many lies. 9. Who is more intelligent? A) Odysseus. B) The Cyclops. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Odysseus. 10. What does Nausicaa do to help Odysseus? A) She gives him gold and gifts. B) She takes him to her father's palace. C) She feeds him a great feast. D) She gives him a scarf to help him swim in the ocean. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She takes him to her father's palace. 11. Who proposed marriage to Odysseus? A) Nestor. B) Penelope. C) Nausicaa. D) Eurycleia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nausicaa. 12. Which people live on an island ruled by King Alcinous? A) The Romans. B) The Phaeacians. C) The Trojans. D) The Suitors. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Phaeacians. 13. What are stories rooted in culture that explain a belief, ritual, or phenomenon? A) Myth. B) Epic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Myth. 14. The watery part of milk A) Way. B) Whey. C) Weigh. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Whey. 15. Who was the daughter of Zeus? A) Athena. B) In luck. C) Circe. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Athena. 16. How does Elpenor die? A) Falling off Circe's roof. B) Struck by lightning at sea. C) Eaten by Scylla. D) Eaten by Polyphemus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Falling off Circe's roof. 17. Which vocabulary word matches the following definition:vast, dark depths. A) Indignant. B) Transmitters. C) Rheumy. D) Cavernous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cavernous. 18. Message of the story that reflects a universal idea A) Epic Poetry. B) Epic Theme. C) Epic Setting. D) Epic Plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epic Theme. 19. What did the Greeks build to sneak into Troy and win the war? A) A tunnel. B) A siege machine. C) A battering ram. D) A wooden horse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A wooden horse. 20. What did Odysseus say he would do at sunrise? A) Go to the mountains to hunt. B) Go to the woods to see his father. C) Go to the town to celebrate. D) Go to the sea to fish. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Go to the woods to see his father. ← 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