The Odyssey Characters
Authored by Dawn Morton
English
9th Grade
CCSS covered
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1.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
Wife of Menelaus and queen of Sparta, her abduction by the Trojans sparked the Trojan War.
Circe
Helen
Homer
Luertes
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
2.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
Former King of Mycenae, brother of Menelaus and commander of Achaean forces at Troy. Odysseus encounters his spirit in Hades. He was murdered by his wife and her lover upon his return from the war.
Telemachus
Homer
Agaenmon
Tiresuas
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
3.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
The beautiful daughter of King Alcinous and Queen Arete of the Phaeacians. She discovers Odysseus on the beach at Scheria and ensures his warm reception at her parents' palace.
Telemachus
Nausica
Helen
Athena
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
4.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
Queen of the Phaeacians and mother of Nausicaa. She is intelligent an influential.
Helen
Nausica
Arete
Alcious
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
5.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
King of the Phaecians, who offers Odysseus hospitality in his island kingdom of Scheria. He provides him safe passage back to Ithaca.
Telemachus
Laertes
Polythemus
Alcious
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
6.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
Odysseus' aging father, who lives on a farm in Itaca.
Telemachus
Polythemus
Poseidon
Laertes
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
7.
MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION
30 sec • 5 pts
One of the Cyclops who imprisions Odysseus and his crew and tries to eat them. Odysseus blinds him and angers his father, Poseidon.
Homer
Polythemus
Agaenmnon
Tiresias
Tags
CCSS.RL.8.10
CCSS.RL.8.4
CCSS.RL.8.5
CCSS.RL.9-10.10
CCSS.RL.9-10.9
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