WorksheetsThe Odyssey Part One
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 22mins
"When the young Dawn with fingertips of rose
lit up the world, the Cyclops built a fire
and milked his handsome ewes, all in due order."
This is an example of:
epithet
personification
situational irony
alter ego
This line from Book 1 introduces which of the following themes, "You need not bear this insolence of theirs, you are a child no longer"?
A boy must struggle to become a man.
A soldier must struggle to get home from war.
A queen must use wit to stay faithful.
A king must struggle to reclaim his kingdom.
What is the purpose of these lines?
"By heaven! when she
vomited, all the sea was like a cauldron
seething over intense fire, when the mixture
suddenly heaves and rises."
To compare Charybdis to a cooking pot boiling over and help the audience make a connection to an ordinary event.
To use sensory language to help the audience be in the moment of sailing beside Charybdis.
To introduce the idea of vulnerability that the sailors feel sailing beside Charybdis.
To display the violence in the moment of Charybdis being sick through the human characteristic of vomiting.
An epic hero embodies the values of the civilization. Odysseus portrays of the following values EXCEPT
Bravery
Intelligence
Hospitality
Leadership
"In the wild wood they found an open glade,
around a smooth stone house--the hall of Circe"
Allusion
Personification
Epithet
Alliteration
An epic is a narrative __________ that tells a story in verse and is usually taken from history or legend.
story
poem
play
hyperbole
The Odyssey begins "in media res" which means this tale starts ______________.
at the end
in a little boy's dream
at the beginning
in the middle of things
What are "extended comparisons that go on for several lines"?
epic simile
rhapsode
epithet
metaphor
Which of the following is "a plea to the Muse for inspiration to tell the tale"?
xenia
hubris
in media res
invocation
An epic hero is a character of great strength and courage who undertakes a difficult _______________.
sport
journey
person
assignment
An epithet is a brief descriptive phrase that emphasizes an important characteristic of a person or thing. Which of the following is an example of an epithet?
the faithful Penelope
Odysseus is a brave warrior
I once met a cat named Garfield
Snoopy is Charlie Brown's best friend
event/scene taking place before the present time; Back to the Future
foreshadow
flashback
tone
mood
a hint or clue to future events; If you don't study your vocabulary words, you may fail the quiz.
tone
epithet
flashback
foreshadw
"Her legs-and there are 12 of them-are like great tentacles..." (930).
simile
metaphor
allusion
personification
"...he (Polyphemus) seemed rather a shaggy mountain" (906).
simile
metaphor
personification
epithet
"Son of Laertes and the gods of old, Odysseus, master mariner and soldier" (922).
epilogue
epic simile
epithet
epic poem
In the text is says, "Where shall a man find sweetness to surpass / his own home and his parents? In far lands / he shall not, though he find a house of gold." Which of the following themes best match the ideas presented in the passage?
A soldier must struggle to return home from a war.
A boy must struggle to become a man.
A king must struggle to reclaim his kingdom.
A goddess must defy her father.
Zeus sends Hermes, the messenger god, to tell Calypso she must _____ Odysseus, yet she tells Odysseus she ___.
marry . . . does not want to
release . . . will not obey the gods
kill . . . cannot obey the gods
release . . . cannot believe he wants to leave her
Calypso's words: "If you could see it all, before you go ---/ all the adversity you face at sea -- / you would stay here, and guard this house, and be / immortal" best demonstrate which of he following literary terms:
personification
foreshadowing
flashback
allusion
Odysseus faces and survives all of these dangers toward the end of Part 1 EXCEPT:
the singing of the Sirens
the hydra Scylla
the whirlpool of Charybdis
a fight with Ares
Who were the two women who detained Odysseus?
Calypso and Circe
Calypso and Athena
Athena and Circe
Penelope and Calypso
When Odysseus sent three men to search the island of the Lotus-Eaters, why did those men not return?
they were "drugged" after eating the Lotus Flower
Calypso detained them for "her heart's delight."
they ate the Lotus Flower and died
the sea nymphs gave them Lotus Flowers
Which quote about the Cyclopes best describes their lack of culture?
"Cyclopes have no muster and no meeting, no consultation or old tribal ways."
"they neither plow nor sow by hand..."
"each one dwells in his own mountain cave"
"Cyclopes care not a whistle for your thundering Zeus or all the gods in bliss..."
