The Odyssey Characters and Background Information

Who is Polyphemus?

• The Cyclops
• One of Odysseus's crew
• An arrogant suitor
• A lotus eater

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Argos is

• the faithful dog of Odysseus.
• the faithful goatherd.
• the name of Odysseus ship.
• the name of Odysseus' palace.

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Who is the hero of the Odyssey?

• Posiedon
• Penelope
• Odysseus
• Telemachus

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Who turns Odysseus' men into swine?

• Calypso
• Sirens
• Prince of Thebes
• Circe

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Odysseus is helped by which god/goddess?

• Athena
• Aphrodite
• Zeus
• Posideon

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This drawing depicts

• Scylla
• Charybdis
• The Sirens
• Circe

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This image depicts

• Scylla
• Charybdis
• The Sirens
• Circe

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In Part II of the Odyssey, the hero appears disguised as which?

• a suitor
• Eumeaus
• a beggar
• a priest of Zeus

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

• Circe
• Homer
• Telemachus
• the Muse

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Who disguised Odysseus as a begger when he arrived to Ithaca?

• Penelope
• Eurymachus
• Zeus
• Athena

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