The Odyssey Quiz 22 (20 MCQs)

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1. Odysseus' home and his wife are being bothered by

Correct Answer: C) A group of suitors who want to marry his wife.

2. Who got revenge for Helios?

Correct Answer: A) Zeus.

3. Odysseus prays to which god at the end of book VI?

Correct Answer: C) Athena.

4. What brought Greece out of the Dark Ages?

Correct Answer: C) Trade throughout the Mediterranean region.

5. Throughout the excerpt from the Odyssey, Part 1, Odysseus tempts fate by behaving recklessly. What is the reaction of his men?

Correct Answer: D) They try to discourage his rashness.

6. What task did Penelope give to the suitors?

Correct Answer: D) Stringing Odysseus's bow and shooting an arrow through twelve axe heads.

7. What happens to Odysseus after he leaves Calypso's island?

Correct Answer: D) His raft is destroyed by a storm Poseidon sends.

8. Who does Paris award the golden apple to and why does he choose that goddess?

Correct Answer: D) Aphrodite, because she offers to make the most beautiful woman in the world fall in love with him.

9. When Odysseus falls asleep, his men ..... the bag

Correct Answer: B) Open.

10. On Ogygia Odysseus has no crew left.

Correct Answer: A) True.

11. What effect do the lotus flowers have on the men after the eat them?

Correct Answer: C) The men forget the past.

12. Which god is angry with Odysseus?

Correct Answer: C) Poseidon.

13. Hubris means one has too much .....

Correct Answer: A) Pride.

14. Why is Nestor and Helen considered temporary mentors in the Odyssey?

Correct Answer: C) They give one piece information for telemachus to whether his father is alive.

15. He thought that the suit was so ..... that he refused to wear it.

Correct Answer: A) Hideous.

16. What did Calypso promise Odysseus to make him stay with her?

Correct Answer: B) Immortality.

17. Which women fall in love with Odysseus?

Correct Answer: A) Circe and Calypso.

18. In which adventure in this section does Odysseus act most heroically?

Correct Answer: C) Braving Scylla and Charybdis and not telling his men which path he was taking.

19. What kind of animals attack the suitors as a sign from Zeus?

Correct Answer: D) Eagles.

20. Which vocabulary word matches the following definition:a tall ancient Greek or Roman jar with two handles and a narrow neck.

Correct Answer: C) Amphora.