This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Greek Classics > The Odyssey > The Odyssey – Quiz 71 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Odyssey Quiz 71 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "Salt tears rose from the wells of longing of both men, and cries burst from both as keen and fluttering as those of a great taloned hawk, whose nestlings farmers take before they fly. So helplessly they cried, pouring out tears, and might have gone weeping until sundown." Identify the literary device used. A) Allusion. B) Metaphor. C) Foreshadowing. D) Homeric simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Homeric simile. 2. What was Odysseus debating? A) If he should embrace Nausikaa's knees. B) Convince Nausikaa to bring him to town and beg for clothing. C) Scare the girls off so they would leave. D) Steal the mule cart and go to town. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) If he should embrace Nausikaa's knees. 3. The warriors ..... the village and took valuable items. A) Plundered. B) Blundered. C) Thundered. D) Shoplifted. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Plundered. 4. Who does Odysseus find outside of the hut? A) Athena. B) Eumaeus. C) Telemachos. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Eumaeus. 5. Which of the Olympian gods sunk Odysseus ship, causing him to become stuck on Ogygia? A) Hermes. B) Athena. C) Zeus. D) Poseidon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Zeus. 6. Odysseus wants to go A) To war. B) Home. C) To Mount Olympus. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Home. 7. What cool trick could Odysseus do, but others couldn't? A) He could shoot an arrow through several axe handles all lined up. B) He could control the wind and would sail all around Greece. C) He could ride under the belly of sheep. D) He could transform himself whenever he wanted to. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He could shoot an arrow through several axe handles all lined up. 8. Who is Polyphemus? A) The Cyclops. B) One of Odysseus's crew. C) An arrogant suitor. D) A lotus eater. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Cyclops. 9. Who is this? A) Zeus, the highest god of Greek Mythology. B) Water Talker, a Greek God. C) Poseidon, the God of the Sea. D) Athena, Godess of Wisdom. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Poseidon, the God of the Sea. 10. Which of the following archetypes is not found in The Odyssey? A) Buried treasure. B) The loyal servant. C) The wicked temptress. D) The suitor's contest. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Buried treasure. 11. What does Penelope do so that she will never need to choose a new husband? A) She hides from the suitors. B) She weaves at her loom and unravels her work at night. C) She weaves a shroud so large that it will never be finished. D) She pretends to be crazy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) She weaves at her loom and unravels her work at night. 12. What type of figurative language is the following excerpt:"But now, no use, he's died a wretched death.No comfort's left for us ..... not even ifsomeone, somewhere, says he's coming home. The day of his return will never dawn." A) Hyperbole. B) Simile. C) Metaphor. D) Allusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 13. What happens to the suitors (Princes)? A) They leave when Penelope asks them to. B) Poseidon punishes them. C) Odysseus kills them. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Odysseus kills them. 14. Food was getting ..... during the drought. A) Scarce. B) Tidbits. C) Vile. D) Snare. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scarce. 15. Myths were told (a) A) A orally. B) Only by Homer. C) To teach and not entertain. D) By the gods and goddesses. E) Traditionally. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A orally. 16. Who "longed to marry" Odysseus and kept him in her "vaulted cave" ? A) Penelope. B) Athena. C) Calypso. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Calypso. 17. How many of Odysseus' 12 ships, 600 men, unnamed women, and livestock make it home? A) All of them. B) Half of them. C) One ship with fifty men. D) Just Odysseus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Just Odysseus. 18. What happens with Paris and the golden apple? A) Aphrodite gives it to him & makes him the greatest hero of the Trojan war. B) He awards it to Aphrodite, steals Helen, and starts the Trojan War. C) When he eats it, the poison causes his death. D) It is his prize for winning The Trojan War. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He awards it to Aphrodite, steals Helen, and starts the Trojan War. 19. Passion A) Work. B) Revelry. C) Ardor. D) Profusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ardor. 20. The Navy Admiral used strategic ..... to win the battle at sea A) Manipulation. B) Acting. C) Tactics. D) Orders. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tactics. ← 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