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Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 6mins
Who is the presumed author of the Odyssey?
What is the name of the other text Homer wrote?
The Iliad
The Aeneid
The Fates
The Oligarch
When these stories were first told, they were not written down. Instead, a bard did what?
Acted it out
Sang it
Taught it
Freestyle rapped it
What is the poetic meter of Homer's works?
Iambic Pentameter
Trochaic Tetrameter
Dactylic Hexameter
Anapestic Trimeter
Check all that apply to the form of an epic
Superhuman deeds
Fabulous adventures
Highly stylized language
Damsels in distress
Tragic hero
The judgement of Paris involved which three goddesses?
Hera
Athena
Aphrodite
Artemis
Demeter
One side of the war was the Trojans. Who fought on the other side?
Romans
Myceneans
Achaeans
Whitehawks
A polis is a
Politician
City-State
Police Officer
Citizen
What city-state is Odysseus from?
Myconos
Crete
Ithaca
Lemnos
The word meaning "tragic flaw" in Greek is
Ham sandwich
Hamartia
Hubris
Catharsis
True or false: the tragic hero's journey follows the same steps as the hero's journey.
True
False
True or False: during the tragic ending, the hero must die.
True
False
