This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Greek Classics > The Odyssey > The Odyssey – Quiz 47 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Odyssey Quiz 47 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A large and consuming mouth or opening. A) Gorge. B) FROM. C) Maelstrom. D) Work. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gorge. 2. Calypso is A) Helping Odysseus sail across the seas. B) Odysseus' wife. C) Is holding Odysseus on her island. D) Wants to help Polyphemus get revenge. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Is holding Odysseus on her island. 3. Which goddess stepped in to ask Zeus about what will happen to Odysseus? A) Aphrodite. B) Artemis. C) Athena. D) Hera. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Athena. 4. What is Xenia? A) Greek hospitality towards strangers. B) The Phaeacians' supreme sailing abilities. C) The songs a herald sings that stir emotion. D) The notion that all the gods travel the earth disguised. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Greek hospitality towards strangers. 5. A dangerous six-headed sea monster who eats six of Odysseus' men A) Athena. B) Sirens. C) Charybdis. D) Scylla. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Scylla. 6. In the Underworld of Tartarus, Charon is ..... A) A man that ferries the dead across the River Styx. B) In charge of the Punishment Grounds. C) Hades' three-headed guard dog. D) Persephone's maid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A man that ferries the dead across the River Styx. 7. Who is referred as ''god-like" in this book? A) Telemachus. B) Odysseus. C) Argus. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Odysseus. 8. Where was Poseidon when the other Gods agreed to help Odysseus? A) Ethereal. B) Eden. C) Ethiopia. D) Empire of the Rising Sun. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ethiopia. 9. What do the warriors find after they climb the cliffs of the mysterious shore? A) An old shepherd. B) A harbor of enemy ships. C) A sacred temple. D) A cave with food and drinks. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A cave with food and drinks. 10. What woman was said to be responsible for starting the Trojan War? A) Helen of Troy. B) Alania of Africa. C) Elizabeth of Spain. D) Malalia from India. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Helen of Troy. 11. What tone is shown in the following lines:"'Friends, have we never been in danger before this?More fearsome, is it now, than when the Cyclopspenned us in his cave? What power he had!Did I not keep my nerve, and use my witsto find a way out for us?Now I sayby hook or crook this peril too shall besomething that we remember" (Homer 766-773). A) Encouraging. B) Cheery. C) Angry. D) Mournful. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Encouraging. 12. What gift did the Phaeacians give to Odysseus before he left their island? A) A map and a compass. B) A horse and a sword. C) A crown and a scepter. D) Treasure and a ship. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Treasure and a ship. 13. During the Greek Dark Ages ..... A) Writing flourished. B) Writing seems to have disappeared. C) The economy collapsed. D) Stone palaces fell. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Writing seems to have disappeared. 14. A spoken conversation between two characters A) Dialogue. B) Inner monologue. C) Narration. D) Sentence variation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dialogue. 15. Who is the witch/goddess who keeps Odysseus with her? A) Circe. B) Charibdis. C) Scylla. D) Calypso. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Calypso. 16. What is the only thing that Odysseus cares about? A) Marrying Calypso. B) Getting home to Ithaca. C) Fighting in war. D) Sleeping soundly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Getting home to Ithaca. 17. What is the most likely meaning of offended in the following sentence? Use context clues to help you. Miles offended his grandfather by forgetting to thank him for the birthday gift.A.worriedB.confusedC.delightedD.displeased A) A. B) B. C) C. D) D. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) D. 18. How did the Greek soldiers sneak into Troy? A) Wooden boat. B) Wooden horse. C) Wooden pig. D) Wooden catapult. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Wooden horse. 19. Where is Poseidon during this book? A) Ismaros. B) The Ethiopians (or the end of the world). C) The Island of Helios. D) Ithaca. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Ethiopians (or the end of the world). 20. The Odyssey is ..... A) A myth. B) An epic. C) A song. D) The novel. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An epic. ← 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