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WorksheetsThe Odyssey
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
The Odyssey begins at the end of
The Civil War
The Trojan War
The Greek War
The Revolutionary War
Odysseus has angered
Athena
Hades
Poseidon
Zeus
At the Lotus Eaters island, the men do what?
fight
stay on the island
turn into pigs
mutiny against Odysseus
Odysseus tricked Polyphemus by
stealing his sheep
drinking his wine
telling him a false name
hiding in his cave
By bragging about his name, Odysseus displayed the fatal flaw of
cowardice
pride
gluttony
hubris
Circe was
a seamonster
a siren
a witch
a queen
Odysseus was trying to return to
Troy
Ithaca
Sparta
Athens
Calypso kept Odysseus on her island to
protect her
marry her
marry her sister
be her servant
A long poem that tells about the adventure of a hero
epic
muse
homeric simile
invocation
A long comparison of two things using like or as
myth
epic simile
rhapsode
metaphor
An epic starts with this, which is when the speaker asks for help from the Muses
liturgy
homeric simile
invocation
play
He was a blind teller of tales who first recorded the Illiad and the Odyssey
Circe
Telemachus
Homer
Plato
Why did Calypso finally let Odysseus leave?
Zeus demanded it
Out of the goodness of her heart
Odysseus asked nicely
She didn't
Odysseus's son, who goes in search of information about his father
Achilles
Hercules
Agamemnon
Telemachus
Odysseus came up with this Trojan War winning idea
Greek Horse
Trojan Horse
Trojan Puppy
Nothing, the Greeks lost
Circe turns Odysseus's men into what?
dogs
pigs
she kills them
cows
These giant cannibals kill most of Odysseus's men.
Lotus Eaters
Cicones
Phaeacians
Laestrygonians
Odysseus goes here to receive a prophecy from Teiresias.
Aeolia
Troy
Land of the Dead
Aeaea
What does Odysseus receive from Aeolus?
A bag of wind
Food for their journey
Nothing
Money
What do Odysseus's men do with the bag of wind from Aeolus?
Open it
Leave it alone
Throw it off the ship
Trade it for food
