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Multiple Choice

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

Multiple Choice

A character with superhuman qualities who represents a culture's admirable ideals and values and receives help and interference from gods is

• an epic hero

• an epic simile

• an epic theme

• an epic setting

Multiple Choice

A long narrative poem is called

• an epic

• an odyssey

• an archetype

• an allusion

Multiple Choice

The original Odyssey was written by

• Shakespeare

• Homer

• Alexander Pope

• Geraldine McCaughren

Multiple Choice

Who is the main character in the Odyssey?

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

Multiple Choice

The Odyssey begins at the end of

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