StudySync: Odyssey

Multiple Choice

1.Read the question carefully and select the best answer.

Which of the following best describes what Eurylochus means when he talks about a “death by inches” in the

following passage (lines 24–27)?

• A. He prefers to make safe choices only.

• B. He would rather die violently than suffer.

• C. He thinks that they should use measurements to determine a safer way to travel.

• D. He believes that the crew would be better off without him.

Drag and Drop

4.The excerpt is told mainly in the

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tense, from a

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point of view.

Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

past

first-person

present

third-person

Multiple Choice

5.Which of the following best describes Zeus’s reaction to the crew’s slaughtering of Helios’s cattle?

• A. He doesn’t care if men misbehave or disobey the orders of the Sungod.

• B. He gives Helios permission to punish the crew in any way the Sungod sees fit.

• C. He decides to let his brother, Hades, handle it, since he is the god of the dead.

• D. He uses his powers to ensure that the crew is punished appropriately.

Multiple Choice

6.Which of the following line(s) from the poem best supports the correct answer to the previous question?

• A. ‘“All ways of dying are hateful to us poor mortals, / true, but to die of hunger, starve to death—”’

• “‘Father Zeus! the rest of you blissful gods who never die— / punish them all, that crew of Laertes’ son Odysseus— /

  what an outrage!”’

• C. “then Zeus the son of Cronus mounted a thunderhead / above our hollow ship and the deep went black beneath it.”

• D. “‘Sun, you keep on shining among the deathless gods / and mortal men across the good green earth.”’

Multiple Choice

7.Which inference about the actions of the gods is best supported by the excerpt?

• A. The gods did whatever in their powers to help Odysseus and his crew return home safely.

• B. Odysseus was spared by the gods because he did not himself disobey orders.

• C. The gods only wanted to hurt Eurylochus, whom they determined was at fault.

• D. All of the above

Multiple Choice

8.Which line(s) from the poem best support the correct answer to the previous question?

• A. “‘Left on their own, look what a monstrous thing / my crew concocted!’

• B. ‘“At last the West Wind quit its wild rage / but the South came on at once to hound me even more,”’

• C. ‘“But I held on, dead set ... waiting for her / to vomit my mast and keel back up again—”

• D. “I drifted along nine days. On the tenth, at night, / the gods cast me up on Ogygia, Calypso’s island”

Match

9.Match each of the following characters to their descriptions:

• Grecian Hero

• dangerous nymph

• a sea monster

• father of the gods, controls the weather

• god of guides

Odysseus

Calypso

Charybdis

Zeus

Hermes

• Odysseus

• Calypso

• Charybdis

• 
  Zeus

• 
  Hermes

Match

10.Match each vocabulary word to its synonym.

• hoist

• calm

• rosy

• hatch

• reprimand

heave

lull

ruddy

concoct

upbraid

• heave

• lull

• ruddy

• concoct

• upbraid