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WorksheetsOdyssey
Total questions: 29
Worksheet time: 15mins
By bragging about his name, Odysseus displayed the fatal flaw of
cowardice
gluttony
hubris
envy
Who is Odysseus?
A monster.
God of wine.
God of the sun.
A soldier and king of Ithaca.
Odysseus angers the god of the sea who is named...
Percy Jackson
Peter Parker
Poseidon
Persephone
The woman who turns Odysseus's men into pigs is
Calypso
Circe
Penelope
Athena
Who is the dead hero of Troy with the weak ankles?
Odysseus
Perseus
Hercules
Achilles
What war does Odysseus fight in?
The Trojan War
The Polynesian War
The Civil War
The Peloponnesian War
What does the Lotus plant do?
Poisons
Puts you to sleep
Puts you in a trance
Makes you strong
How does Odysseus blind the cyclops?
Gets him drunk and stabs him.
Throws acid in his eye.
Camera flash.
He doesn't blind him.
Who doesn't put beeswax in their ears with the sirens?
All of the men
Zeus
Odysseus
The sirens
What is Odysseus’s main goal throughout the story?
To defeat the Trojans
To marry Helen
To get revenge on Hera
To get home
What idea does Odysseus come up with that ultimately ends the Trojan war?
Building a wall around Troy
getting Apollo involved
creating a Giant wooden horse
Building an invincible ship
What does Tiresias tell Odysseus to avoid?
Sailing West of the island
Communicating with Poseidon
Meeting with Calypso
Killing Helios’s cattle
What does king Aeolus give to Odysseus and his crew?
A bag of wind
A map
A golden compass
A sword made by Hephaestus
How long does Odysseus stay with Circe after she seduces him?
1 year
2 years
A month
What? She never seduces him
What is one flaw of an epic hero?
extremely beautiful
possesses no loyalty
excessive pride
unfaithfulness
In the cave of the Cyclops, what did Odysseus first tell the Cyclops his name was?
Menelaus
NoBody
Laertes
He disguised himself as a beggar
