The Odyssey Pre-Assessment

Who wrote The Odyssey?

• Moses

• Homer

• Milton

• Tennyson

Where does The Odyssey take place?

• Ancient Egypt

• Medieval England

• Ancient Greece

• Modern Day United States

What war did Odysseus leave home for?

• Trojan War

• Revolutionary War

• Athenian War

• Frech and Indian War

How were most stories transmitted at the time The Odyssey was set?

• Newspapers

• Oral Storytelling

• Novels

• Cave Drawings

Most heroes at this time were...

• Common, everyday men who helped people in some way

• Powerful, god-like men with personal, political, and social motives

• Normal men who had powers that they used to fight evil

Theme is...

• The author’s purpose for writing something

• The one, over-arching concept the author wanted to explore and comment on

• The sequence of events that the story progresses through

• The many ideas or concepts the author explores and comments on

Theme is open to interpretation by the reader

• True

• False

A single quote can convey a theme

• True

• False

Theme is often representative of the values of the society a text was written under

• True

• False

Theme is the same thing as a big idea

• True

• False