The Odyssey Quiz 50 (20 MCQs)

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1. "The boat tasted grief and let the breeze take over."

Correct Answer: C) Personification.

2. What does Athena disguise Odysseus as?

Correct Answer: A) An old beggar.

3. Why doesn't Calypso allow Odysseus to leave her island?

Correct Answer: D) She has fallen in love with him.

4. What did Odysseus command Philoetius to do during the fighting?

Correct Answer: D) Lock the doors of the outer gate.

5. Kleos is:

Correct Answer: C) Honor.

6. What's the Greek myth that explains a possible origin of spiders?

Correct Answer: A) Arachne.

7. How many days did the storm last?

Correct Answer: C) Nine days.

8. What is the other name uses to refer to the Greeks in The Odyssey?

Correct Answer: D) The Achaeans.

9. Who is the Cyclops related to?

Correct Answer: D) Poseidon.

10. Odysseus left Penelope headed for what city?

Correct Answer: D) Troy.

11. What was the consequence of eating the cattle?

Correct Answer: A) All of the men but Odysseus died by Zeus's lightning.

12. Where has Zeus destined Odysseus to go next? He actually sees the shores of this land after 18 days at sea.

Correct Answer: B) Scheria.

13. Media res means:

Correct Answer: A) Beginning the story in the middle and flashing back to previous events.

14. What is Penelopes strategy for avoiding the suitors

Correct Answer: A) She weaves a shroud and once it is finished weaving she will marry, but resets the weave every night.

15. Who is the goddess of love and beauty in Greek mythology?

Correct Answer: D) Aphrodite.

16. Who persuades the men to eat the cattle?

Correct Answer: B) Eurylochus.

17. Who's the author of the Odyssey?

Correct Answer: D) Homer.

18. How many years was Odysseus gone to war?

Correct Answer: B) 20.

19. What is a real world example of chronological order?

Correct Answer: B) Recipe.

20. What is Odysseus' tone as he realizes what his men have done?

Correct Answer: B) Horrified.