WorksheetsThe Odyssey
Total questions: 30
Worksheet time: 15mins
He is also known as Ulysses.
Odysseus
Polyphemus
Poseidon
Zeus
The Cyclops are giants; they have only one _____.
ear
eye
leg
arm
What motivated Odysseus and his men to land on the island of the Cyclops?
sadness
hunger
fear
disease
Odysseus said that his name was:
anybody
somebody
they
nobody
He is the king of all the Gods on Mount Olympus.
Zeus
Poseidon
Eros
Ares
Goddess of love and beauty.
Aphrodite
Helen
Medusa
Demeter
He is Polyphemus' father and god of the sea.
Zeus
Poseidon
Ares
Apollo
His symbol is the thunderbolt.
Ares
Poseidon
Zeus
Odysseus and his men escaped Polyphemus by riding on the bellies of
rams
pigs
cows
camels
The most beautiful woman in ancient Greece.
Helen of Troy
Circe the Witch
Aphrodite
This is another example of Odysseus' intelligence; it helped win the Trojan War.
The Trojan Horse
The Trojan Bear
The Trojan Bull
The witch Circe can turn men into . . .
animals
plants
insects
rocks
The gods are fickle; sometimes they help you and sometimes they hurt you.
true
false
To survive the sirens, Odysseus' men must do what?
cover their eyes
plug their ears
jump in the water
sing a song
Scylla and Charybdis are creatures of the _______.
sea
air
land
She is considered to be Odysseus' guide or protector.
Athena
Artemis
Aphrodite
One way that Charybdis stays hidden is that she . . .
hides under a tree
crouches under a rock
camouflages herself
Circe warns Odysseus to not eat __________ when he gets to his next destination.
fruit
corn
livestock
fish
After the Sirens seduce a man, they . . .
let him go
eat him
marry him
sing to him
Odysseus' major flaw is . . .
Jealousy
Fear
Hubris
Rage
Theseus was a Greek hero who slayed the ______.
minotaur
cyclops
sirens
hydra
The minotaur lives in the center of the . . .
park
lake
mountain
labyrinth
She gives Theseus a magical thread and wants to marry him.
Arachne
Ariadne
Athena
When he saw that the sails were black, and not white, he thought that Theseus was dead and so committed suicide.
King Minos
King Aegeus
Poseidon
King Agamemnon
What did Theseus do that angered the Gods?
cursed at Zeus
kidnapped Helen of Troy
abandoned Ariadne
Poor _______. She resisted and resisted, but finally gave in to Peleus.
Thetis
Ariadne
Hera
This prophecy is a motif in Greek mythology.
son will overthrow father
son will steal father's wife
son will burn father's house
He died in the Trojan War because two goddesses had been plotting against him since his birth.
Odysseus
Achilles
Hercules
Hector
When Gaia, the Earth, and Uranus, the sky first tried to make children, something must have gone wrong because the children were all ________.
deaf
blind
monsters
He had to decide who deserved the golden apple.
Paris
Peleus
Zeus
