The Odyssey

The Odyssey

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What war did Odysseus leave home to fight?

• The Greek war

• The Trojan war

• The World war

• The Athenian war

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Who is the main character of “The Odyssey?”

• Odysseus

• Troy

• Agamemnon

• Homer

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Who wrote “The Odyssey?”

• Odysseus

• Troy

• Agamemnon

• Homer

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The home island of Odysseus is Ithaca.

• True
• False

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How were stories passed down during the Homeric Age?

• They were written on cave walls

• They were passed down orally

• they were written in sacred books

• they were written in text message

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A long narrative poem is called

• an epic

• an odyssey

• an archetype

• an allusion

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The original Odyssey was written by

• Shakespeare

• Homer

• Alexander Pope

• Geraldine McCaughren

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Who is the main character in the Odyssey?

• The Rock
• Odyssues
• Peter Pan
• Markus the Great

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The Odyssey begins at the end of

• The Trojan War
• The Civil War
• The Greek War

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The Cyclops is the son of...

• Zeus
• Hermes
• Apollo
• Poseidon

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What is Odysseus' hometown?

• Sparta
• Ithaca
• Ismarus
• Thrinacia

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character who fought in the Trojan War and wandered around the Mediterranean

• Polyphemus
• Telemachus
• Odysseus
• Achilles

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He was the blind teller of tales who first recorded The Iliad and The Odyssey

• Circe
• Homer
• Telemachus
• the Muse

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a long poem that tells about the adventures of a hero

• homeric simile
• epic
• invocation
• muse

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a story told many times that serves to explain something about the world or a historical event

• epic
• myth
• invocation
• rhapsode

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What war does Odysseus fight in?

• The Trojan War

• The Polynesian War

• The Civil War

• The Peloponnesian War

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Odysseus angers the god of the sea who is named...

• Percy Jackson

• Peter Parker

• Poseidon

• Persephone