WorksheetsThe Adventures of Odysseus
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
How long is Odysseus gone (in total) from his home?
10 years
15 years
20 years
30 years
What situation does Odysseus's wife Penelope deal with while her husband is away?
Suitors refuse to leave her house until she agrees to marry one of them.
A man from the island has imprisoned her in her own home and forced her to marry him.
Everyone continues to steal Odysseus's valuables, including his bow and arrows.
There are no problems, excepting the fact that Penelope misses Odysseus terribly.
Who imprisoned Odysseus on an island for seven years?
Penelope
Circe
Tiresias
Calypso
Who turns Odysseus's men into swine?
Nausicaa
Scylla
Circe
Calypso
What happens when Odysseus is gifted a bag of winds from King Aeolus?
His men open the bag out of curiosity and blow the ships further off course.
Odysseus uses the bags at a pivotal moment to blow the ships away from the Laestrygonians.
The bag is fought over by Odysseus's men and dropped into the sea during the scuffle.
The winds must be given as a gift to Circe to free Odysseus's men.
What group of people eventually help Odysseus get back home?
The Laestrygonians
The Phaeacians
The Charybdians
The Nausicaans
What island does Odysseus call home?
Sicily
Naxos
Crete
Ithaca
Which divinity is instrumental in getting Odysseus home, and which one tries to prevent him from doing so?
Athena; Poseidon
Artemis; Poseidon
Athena; Hera
Hermes; Hera
What task is devised to supposedly choose a suitor for Penelope to marry?
He must shoot a flaming arrow, perfectly aimed at an effigy that will light with the perfectly landed shot to the incendiary material.
He must shoot an arrow through 12 rings using Odysseus's bow.
He must defeat Telemachus in single combat.
He must make Penelope fall in love with him.
What must Odysseus do to lure the blind prophet Tiresias up from the Underworld?
Fill a pit with sheep's blood.
Spill his own blood at the entrance to the Underworld.
Sacrifice a ram.
Carry a golden branch through the Underworld to Charon.
How does Odysseus save his men from the Sirens?
He chains everyone to the ship.
He makes them plug their ears with wax.
They take the long route to avoid the island of the Sirens.
He can do nothing: he loses twelve men to the Sirens.
What foolish action is taken on the Island of the Sun, killing the last of Odysseus's men?
The men slaughter the beloved oxen of the Sun.
The men open the bag of winds.
The men brag that they cannot be drowned by the sea.
The men attempt to steal some of the beloved oxen of the Sun.
