Free Printable Odyssey Book 1 and 5 Quiz

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Odyssey Book 1 and 5 Quiz

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 17mins

Name

Class

Date

Who is the "man skilled in all ways of contending" - the subject of the story the narrator would like to hear?

Telemachus

Odyessus

Ogygia

Achilles

Who is Odysseus's patron goddess?

Hera

Athena

Helen

Demeter

What does Athena beg her father?

Send Hermes to free Odyesseus

Send Hermes to kill Kalypso

Order Odysseus to kill the suitors

Banish Kalypso

Who is sent to deliver the message from Zeus to free Odysseus?

Athena

Ares

Hermes

Zeus

What is Odysseus's son's name, and where does he live?

Telemachus / Ithaca

Telemachus / Pylos

Telemachus / Ogygia

Telemachus / Illion

What would Telemachus like his father to do?

Never return

Return home and drive the suitors away

Bring home the eye of the cyclops

Appease Poseidon

What have the suitors done to Telemachus's home?

Trashed the house and ate all the food

Repaired the damage

Burned it down

Stole Odyesseus's treasures.

Telemachus is advised to take a boat to find out news about what person?

Nestor

Odysseus

Menelaus

Pylos

Who wrote The Odyssey?

Odysseus

Homer

Edgar Allan Poe

F. Scott Fitzgerald

10.

Which city was Odysseus the king of?

Mykonos

Troy

Sparta

Ithaca

11.

Which goddess wants Odysseus to succeed?

Aphrodite

Athena

Artemis

Poseidon

12.

Who did Odysseus long to get back to?

His son Leonardo

His wife Penelope

His son Telemarket

His brother Zeus

13.

Which god was angry with Odysseus?

Aphrodite

Poseidon

Medusa

Telemachus

14.

Why were there suitors at the house?

Telemachus was having a yard sale

Odysseus was having a party

The suitors were trying to be with Penelope

The suitors were doing chores for Penelope

15.

What offer does Calypso make Odysseus to get him to stay with her?

Ambrosia

Freedom

Immortality

Revenge

16.

What message has Hermes come to Calypso's Island (Ogygia) to deliver?

Odysseus is banished to Hades

Calypso is to free Odysseus

Penelope has remained faithful to Odysseus

Helios will sink Calypso's island if he doesn't get his cattle back

17.

What is the great warrior, Odysseus, doing when we first meet him?

Crying, longing for home

Hunting on Calypso's wooded island

Weaving a tapestry

Plotting revenge

18.

Calypso, once representing a challenge for Odysseus on his Hero's Journey, now represents his helper when she:

Weaves him a tapestry to take back to Ithaca

Offers him Ambrosia and honey

Promises him a raft and supplies to help him return to Ithaca

Refuses to allow him to leave her island

19.

How does Odysseus show that he is clever when he evades Calypso's question in Book 5?

By acknowledging that Calypso is more beautiful than Penelope

By comparing Penelope to other mortals and focusing on the concept of "home."

By being brutally honest that Penelope is more beautiful than Calypso ever could be

By avoiding answering the question entirely and focusing on the raft

20.

In the Epic Simile on page 1106 Hermes is compared to what animal?

a pigeon

a lion

a gull

a bull

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Odyssey Book 1 and 5 Quiz

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 17mins

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