This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Greek Classics > The Odyssey > The Odyssey – Quiz 73 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Odyssey Quiz 73 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who was the rhapsode of The Odyssey? A) Taco. B) JK. Rowling. C) Homer. D) Edgar Allan Poe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Homer. 2. The loud noise from the fire alarm helped to ..... everyone from their deep sleep. A) Soothe. B) Inspire. C) Rouse. D) Enchant. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rouse. 3. Epic poems include supernatural elements? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 4. "In a smithy one sees a white-hot axehead or an adzeplunged and wrung in a cold tub, screeching steam ..... the way they make soft iron hale and hard ..... just so that eyeball hissed around the spike." A) Imagery. B) Epic Simile. C) Allusion. D) Irony. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epic Simile. 5. To dislike strongly, be against. A) Averse. B) Universe. C) Advent. D) Verse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Averse. 6. Mentor Archetype A) Hermes. B) Zeus. C) Circe. D) Polyphemus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hermes. 7. Odysseus is the focus of which epic? A) Clash of the Titans. B) The Odyssey. C) The Illiad. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Odyssey. 8. What is an universal idea or symbol? A) Archetype. B) Myth. C) The Hero's Journey. D) The Odyssey. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Archetype. 9. What isn't true about the author? A) He was blind. B) There is no credible information about him. C) He was the child of a muse. D) He also wrote Metamorphoses. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He also wrote Metamorphoses. 10. Horrified, shocked A) Appalled. B) Brazen. C) Dell. D) Dismember. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Appalled. 11. When visiting the Lotus Eaters, the greatest challenge is that the men may not ..... A) Want to return home if they eat the flower. B) Enjoy too much and become sick from it. C) Die because of the poison in the flower. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Want to return home if they eat the flower. 12. Who was the god that created the storm at sea so that Odysseus couldn't get home? A) Poseidon. B) Hera. C) Apollo. D) Aphrodite. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poseidon. 13. The Trojan war was fought between the Trojans and the ..... ? A) Greeks. B) Romans. C) British. D) Americans. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Greeks. 14. Who is the god of the sea to whom dozens of bulls are sacrificed in Book 3? A) Zeus. B) Poseidon. C) Apollo. D) Hades. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poseidon. 15. What is the significance of the word 'rhapsode'? A) It means a man-eating giant. B) It means a sorceress. C) It means stitching together. D) It means a long-lost king. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It means stitching together. 16. The Greeks are responsible for inventing the Olympic games. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 17. What is the one-eyed son of Poseidon's name? A) Cyclops. B) Sideclops. C) Polyphemus. D) Polyfemurs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Polyphemus. 18. The author's attitude towards the audience, the subject, or the characters; "You yellow dogs ..... " A) Allusion. B) Epithet. C) Mood. D) Tone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tone. 19. The Giant in the Cave A) Polyphemus. B) Charybdis. C) Scylla. D) Sirens. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Polyphemus. 20. Daughters of Zeus; They inspired people to produce music, poetry, dance, and all the other arts. A) Muse. B) Nymph. C) Calypso. D) Ithaca. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Muse. ← 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