The Odyssey Quiz

What war did Odysseus fight in? How many years? How did he win it?

• Trojan War ; 10 years; Trojan Horse

• Civil War; 7 years; Trojan Horse

• Trojan War; 7 years; Trojan Horse

• Trojan War; 10 years, impossible contest

What is the first adventure we hear about? How many years was he stuck there?

• Calypso; 10 years

• Circe; 10 years

• Calypso; 7 years

• Phaecians; 3 years

From where does Odysseus tells the rest of his adventures (through flashbacks)?

• Calypso's Island

• Land of the Lotus Eaters

• Cyclop's cave

• King Alcinous's kingdom and the Phaecians

Where is Odysseus's home?

• Italy

• Ithaca

• Troy

• Phaecia

How many years TOTAL was Odysseus gone?

• 5

• 10

• 3

• 20

The concept of Greek hospitality. Welcoming a stranger in with no questions asked in case the stranger is a god/goddess in disguise.

• Hubris

• Xenia

• Good manners

• Epic

Excessive pride

• xenia

• conceited

• duck with a golden beak

• hubris

an event in a literary work that is set in a time earlier than the main story

• flashforward

• memory

• flashback

• time travel

a critical weakness or defect that leads to a character's tragic downfall in literature

• annoying

• bad quality

• tragic flaw/fatal flaw

• mistake

a long poem, typically one derived from ancient oral tradition, narrating the deeds and adventures of heroic or legendary figures or the history of a nation

• tragedy

• a novel

• ballad

• epic