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WorksheetsThe Odyssey Test Review
Total questions: 21
Worksheet time: 18mins
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Class
Date
1.
How many examples of similes are in this passage?
Getting all of the kids into the car was like herding cattle. All 6 of the family members were packed into the car like sardines. Jennie felt like the car was as cramped as a coffin! The car was a speeding bullet, flying down the road to get to the wedding on time.
Getting all of the kids into the car was like herding cattle. All 6 of the family members were packed into the car like sardines. Jennie felt like the car was as cramped as a coffin! The car was a speeding bullet, flying down the road to get to the wedding on time.
a)
2
b)
3
c)
4
d)
5
2.
Which sentence is a metaphor?
a)
Getting all of the kids into the car was like herding cattle.
b)
All 6 of the family members were packed into the car like sardines.
c)
Jennie felt like the car was as cramped as a coffin!
d)
The car was a speeding bullet, flying down the road to get to the wedding on time.
3.
The best friends had so much in common they were like two peas in a pod.
What are the words in blue an example of?
What are the words in blue an example of?
a)
Simile
b)
Metaphor
4.
An "allusion" is a reference to what?
a)
a well-known place
b)
a well-known event
c)
a well-known work of art or literature
d)
All of the above
5.
What is personification?
a)
The same beginning sound repeated
b)
Giving human characteristics to non-human things
c)
A word that is a sound
d)
An exaggeration
6.
The train screamed down the tracks.
a)
Simile
b)
Alliteration
c)
Metaphor
d)
Personification
7.
An archetype is:
a)
A basic plot, character, symbol, or idea that recurs in the literature of many cultures
b)
A dynamic character that plays a major role in many different stories
c)
A tradition of passing down stories by word-of-mouth
d)
The main character of a work of literature
8.
Who wrote The Illiad and The Odyssey?
a)
Homer
b)
Herodotus
c)
Plato
d)
Sophocles
9.
What is an universal idea or symbol?
a)
archetype
b)
myth
c)
The Hero's Journey
d)
The Odyssey
10.
What is another term for The Hero's Journey?
a)
monomyth
b)
archetype
c)
extended metaphor
d)
allusion
11.
What type of writing is The Odyssey
a)
Novel
b)
Non-fiction
c)
Epic Poem
d)
Play
12.
True or False: Epic heroes come from noble birth.
a)
True
b)
False
13.
a long poem that tells about the adventures of a hero
a)
homeric simile
b)
epic
c)
invocation
d)
muse
14.
She had twelve tentacles and six heads that stole men from their ships as they sailed by.
a)
Cyclops
b)
Calypso
c)
Scylla
d)
Penelope
15.
She loved Odysseus but allowed him to leave when Zeus demanded it.
a)
Scylla
b)
Charybdis
c)
Penelope
d)
Calypso
16.
"The man skilled in all ways of contending" is an example of this literary device.
a)
invocation
b)
ambition
c)
liturgy
d)
epithet
17.
Circe turns Odysseus' men into...
a)
goats
b)
pigs
c)
monkeys
d)
bunnies
18.
_______:These creatures look like beautiful women, and their song can make ships crash and men forget their homes.
a)
The Lotus-Eaters
b)
The Sirens
c)
The Six-headed Syclla
d)
The Laestrygonians
19.
This product stopped Odysseus' men from hearing a song that would cause them to crash or abandon their will to go home.
a)
QTips
b)
Clay
c)
Mud
d)
Beeswax
20.
Odysseus is _____ & ______ while his men are killing the cattle of the Sun God.
a)
Sleeping; Singing
b)
Praying; Sleeping
c)
Complacent; Unbothered
d)
Scared; Agitated
21.
_____ sent the final lightening bolt the killed the remainder of Odysseus' men.
a)
Zeus
b)
Apollo
c)
Poseidon
d)
Hades
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