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WorksheetsQuiz 1
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
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Class
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1.
What do the gods decide to do about Odysseus?
a)
Not to intervene in any way
b)
Force Calypso to let him go
c)
Have Calypso fight Hermes for him
d)
Send Zeus to rescue Odysseus
2.
What is Calypso’s big gripe against the gods?
a)
Male gods are allowed lovers and goddesses are not
b)
They are choosing to interfere for entertainment purposes
c)
Male gods have more power than goddesses do
d)
Odysseus has chosen to stay on her island voluntarily
3.
What does Poseidon do when he realizes what the gods have done?
a)
He asks Zeus to change his mind
b)
He threatens to punish Calypso
c)
He find Odysseus and threatens him
d)
He generates a violent storm
4.
What does King Alcinous fear Odysseus to be?
a)
A god
b)
A bad omen
c)
A sorcerer
d)
A martyr
5.
What saddens Odysseus at King Alcinous's feast?
a)
He thinks of Penelope
b)
The mention of battles he has fought
c)
Nausicaa rejects his proposal
d)
He loses an athletic challenge
6.
What happens to Odysseus’s men after they destroy Ismarus?
a)
They narrowly escape attack from the natives
b)
They come to power and take over the city
c)
They take the time to reinforce their own armies
d)
They seek loyal women to take as wives
7.
What happens when Odysseus’s men eat the lotus fruit?
a)
They became entranced by the land's woman
b)
They become greedy and ransack the city
c)
They lose all desire to do anything but eat the fruit
d)
They violently rebel against Odysseus
8.
Who is the Cyclops Polyphemus’s father?
a)
Zeus
b)
Odysseus
c)
Cicones
d)
Poseidon
9.
What do Odysseus and his men do to Polyphemus when he gets drunk?
a)
Run out of the cave
b)
Kill him
c)
Blind him
d)
Call out to his neighbors
10.
What does Odysseus say that his name is?
a)
Alcinous
b)
Nobody
c)
Somebody
d)
Achilles
11.
What does Aeolus give Odysseus?
a)
Advice for his future interaction with Circe
b)
A bag of winds that will direct him home
c)
Predictions of future dangerous situations
d)
All that he needs to defeat Poseidon in battle
12.
Why won’t Aeolus help Odysseus a second time?
a)
He is angry at Odysseus's men
b)
He can not conjure up more winds
c)
He refuses to go against the gods
d)
He formed an alliance with Poseidon
13.
What does Circe do to some of Odysseus’s men?
a)
She seduces them
b)
She turns them into pigs
c)
She devours them
d)
She send them back to Ithaca
14.
Why does Odysseus stay with Circe for a year?
a)
He can not escape as a pig
b)
He does not have a working ship
c)
He gives up on his journey
d)
He becomes Circe's lover
15.
What does Tiresias prophesy for Odysseus?
a)
His return home and his reunion with his wife
b)
His future war against Poseidon
c)
His death at the hands of his enemy
d)
His future encounters with the spirits of fallen greeks
16.
What does Odysseus do when he approaches the islands of the Sirens?
a)
He listens to the Sirens while tied to the ships mast
b)
He plugs his ears up with wax
c)
He changes course and heads back to Circe's island
d)
He prays for Athena's help
17.
What are Scylla and Charybdis?
a)
Two Greek gods
b)
A monster and a whirlpool
c)
Two of Penelope's suitors
d)
A witch and a Calypso
18.
What do Odysseus’s men do on the Island of the Sun?
a)
They leave Odysseus behind
b)
They kill forbidden cows
c)
They pillage the entire island
d)
They ask Zeus to punish Odysseus
19.
What does Athena do to help Odysseus in Ithaca?
a)
She disguises him as an old man
b)
She helps him kill Penelope's suitors
c)
She reveals Poseidon's plan for revenge
d)
She leads him to a place where he can rest
20.
"...singing high and low in her sweet voice, before her look aweaving..."
a)
Visual and Gustatory Imagery
b)
Auditory and Tactile Imagery
c)
Auditory and Visual Imagery
d)
Tactile and Olfactory Imagery
21.
" A deep wood grew outside, with summer leaves of alder and black poplar, pungent cypress"
a)
Visual and Olfactory Imagery
b)
Auditory and Visual Imagery
c)
Olfactory and Tactile Imagery
d)
Tactile and Gustatory Imagery
22.
How does Odysseus cope with his crewmembers eating the lotus?
a)
He has them killed
b)
He forces them on to the boat and ties them up
c)
He joins them
d)
He orders them to stay on the island
23.
Which statement from the text indicates that the Lotus plant is a psychoactive drug?
a)
"they fell in, soon enough, with Lotus Eaters, who showed no will to do us harm" (898).
b)
"those who ate this honeyed plant... never cared to report, nor to return" (898).
c)
"we came to the coastline of the Lotus Eaters, who live upon that flower" (898).
d)
"all hands aboard; come.. and no one taste the Lotus.."(898).
24.
Odysseus is a vain man. ( He thinks very highly of himself)
a)
N/A
b)
"My name is Nohbdy"
c)
"Cyclops, if ever mortal man inquire how you were pout to shame and blinded, tell him Odysseus, raider of cities, took your eye"
d)
"I kept thinking how to win the game"
25.
Odysseus is an intelligent man.
a)
"My name is Nohbdy: mother, father, and friends,/ everyone calls me Nohbdy"
b)
"straight forward they sprinted"
26.
Odysseus is a strong man
a)
"sprinted, lifted it, and rammed it deep in his crater eye
b)
"I tied them slightly together"
c)
"let my anger flare and yelled
27.
What does Odysseus travel to the land of the dead?
a)
He ventured to the land of the dead to retrieve his bow.
b)
To see the prophet Teiresias and learn of his destiny.
c)
To see if his wife and son have died in his absence.
d)
To rescue Demeter's daughter, Persephone.
28.
What was the reputation that the Sirens had amongst the sailors on the ocean?
a)
They could bewitch men with their songs and men would die on their island
b)
The Sirens required great sacrifices of cattle and lambs.
c)
The Sirens were rumored to be half-women, half snake-like creatures.
29.
The last of Odysseus' men are killed...
a)
by Scylla and Charbydis
b)
by traveling to the underworld
c)
they don't all get killed- four of them survive
d)
by Zeus after they eat Lord Helios' cattle
30.
Who advises Odysseus to dress like a beggar?
a)
Circe
b)
Athena
c)
Zeus
d)
Teiresias
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