This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Greek Classics > The Odyssey > The Odyssey – Quiz 38 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Odyssey Quiz 38 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. This goddess is full of wisdom and battle strategy. A) Artemis. B) Aphrodite. C) Athena. D) Hera. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Athena. 2. How many years was Odysseus held captive by Calypso? A) 5. B) 7. C) 20. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 7. 3. Where does Athena stash the treasure? A) Inside the tree. B) In the grotto. C) Under the tree. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In the grotto. 4. What is it? A) The Trojan Donkey. B) The Ithican Horse. C) The Trojan Horse. D) The horse-shaped castle of the kind of Troy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Trojan Horse. 5. Abundance A) Adversity. B) Ardor. C) Desolation. D) Profusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Profusion. 6. What does Odysseus do on the ship? A) Command the ship. B) Prays to the gods. C) Sleeps. D) Fights Skylla. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sleeps. 7. What do Odysseus and Telemachus do to prepare for the contest? A) Remove the weapons from the hall. B) Reveal Odysseus' identity to Penelope. C) Leave Ithaca and set sail for Pylos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Remove the weapons from the hall. 8. What does "get rid of" mean? A) To clean and organize. B) To find and keep. C) To eliminate or throw away. D) To repair and restore. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To eliminate or throw away. 9. Adversary A) A long voyage or wandering. B) Sincere, warm and friendly. C) Someone you are competing with or fighting against. D) A story that begins in the middle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Someone you are competing with or fighting against. 10. How long did the Trojan War last? A) 10 years. B) 5 years. C) 20 years. D) 50 years. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 10 years. 11. Coaches may use TACTICS during a basketball game to help them win. A) Careful planning. B) Quick offense. C) Hurting others. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Careful planning. 12. What is missing from the following:The clouds in the sky look rather ominous. 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. 13. Who is the faithful house servant who recognizes Odysseus' scar? A) Eumaios. B) Euryclea. C) Eurymachus. D) Eurylochus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Euryclea. 14. ..... :great anger A) Alas. B) Veil. C) Tarry. D) Wrath. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wrath. 15. The Odyssey is a long A) Poem. B) Novel. C) Article. D) Email. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poem. 16. "As you hold the rudder, direct the ship away from that dark smokeand rising wave, and head towards the rock."To whom and from whom are these directions given? A) The pilot/Odysseus. B) The pilot/Circe. C) Odysseus/Circe. D) Odysseus/the Sirens. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The pilot/Odysseus. 17. Which quote from The Odyssey (Part 2) shows the proof Penelope needed to determine Odysseus was who he said he was? A) "An old trunk of olive grew like a pillar on the building plot, and I laid out our bedroom round that tree ". B) "Strange woman, the immortals of Olympus made you hard, harder than any.". C) "Woman, by heaven you've stung me now!". D) "Athena lent him beauty, head to foot. She made him taller, and massive, too ". Show Answer Correct Answer: A) "An old trunk of olive grew like a pillar on the building plot, and I laid out our bedroom round that tree ". 18. The first thing Odysseus does when he sees the king and queen is: A) Throw himself at the feet of the queen, begging forgiveness. B) Fire an arrow into the nearest target to show his strength. C) Takes the king's hand and tell him how much he admires the palace. D) Stand in front of them and announce that he is the son of good Laertes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Throw himself at the feet of the queen, begging forgiveness. 19. What is Odysseus' ultimate goal after arriving home to Ithaca? A) Fighting in the Trojan War. B) Getting the suitors out of his home and getting his city back. C) Fighting the Cyclops. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Getting the suitors out of his home and getting his city back. 20. According to scientists and historians, one origin of the Cyclops myth can be: A) People with deformities. B) A real race of one-eyed people. C) Elephant skulls found in caves. D) Shipwrecked rhino skulls. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Elephant skulls found in caves. ← 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