Odyssey Review 1-8

What war did Odysseus leave home to fight?

• The Greek war

• The Trojan war

• The World war

• The Athenian war

Who is the main character of “The Odyssey?”

• Odysseus

• Troy

• Agamemnon

• Homer

Who wrote “The Odyssey?”

• Odysseus

• Troy

• Agamemnon

• Homer

The home island of Odysseus is Ithaca.

• True
• False

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

A long narrative poem is called

• an epic

• an odyssey

• an archetype

• an allusion

The Odyssey begins at the end of

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

The Cyclops is the son of...

• Zeus
• Hermes
• Apollo
• Poseidon

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

• Circe
• Homer
• Telemachus
• the Muse

What is Odysseus' quest?

• to go home
• to end the Trojan War
• to defeat Poseidon
• to find his son