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The Odyssey

Total questions: 30

Worksheet time: 15mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

He is also known as Ulysses.

a)

Odysseus

b)

Polyphemus

c)

Poseidon

d)

Zeus

2.

The Cyclops are giants; they have only one _____.

a)

ear

b)

eye

c)

leg

d)

arm

3.

What motivated Odysseus and his men to land on the island of the Cyclops?

a)

sadness

b)

hunger

c)

fear

d)

disease

4.

Odysseus said that his name was:

a)

anybody

b)

somebody

c)

they

d)

nobody

5.

He is the king of all the Gods on Mount Olympus.

a)

Zeus

b)

Poseidon

c)

Eros

d)

Ares

6.

Goddess of love and beauty.

a)

Aphrodite

b)

Helen

c)

Medusa

d)

Demeter

7.

He is Polyphemus' father and god of the sea.

a)

Zeus

b)

Poseidon

c)

Ares

d)

Apollo

8.

His symbol is the thunderbolt.

a)

Ares

b)

Poseidon

c)

Zeus

9.

Odysseus and his men escaped Polyphemus by riding on the bellies of

a)

rams

b)

pigs

c)

cows

d)

camels

10.

The most beautiful woman in ancient Greece.

a)

Helen of Troy

b)

Circe the Witch

c)

Aphrodite

11.

This is another example of Odysseus' intelligence; it helped win the Trojan War.

a)

The Trojan Horse

b)

The Trojan Bear

c)

The Trojan Bull

12.

The witch Circe can turn men into . . .

a)

animals

b)

plants

c)

insects

d)

rocks

13.

The gods are fickle; sometimes they help you and sometimes they hurt you.

a)

true

b)

false

14.

To survive the sirens, Odysseus' men must do what?

a)

cover their eyes

b)

plug their ears

c)

jump in the water

d)

sing a song

15.

Scylla and Charybdis are creatures of the _______.

a)

sea

b)

air

c)

land

16.

She is considered to be Odysseus' guide or protector.

a)

Athena

b)

Artemis

c)

Aphrodite

17.

One way that Charybdis stays hidden is that she . . .

a)

hides under a tree

b)

crouches under a rock

c)

camouflages herself

18.

Circe warns Odysseus to not eat __________ when he gets to his next destination.

a)

fruit

b)

corn

c)

livestock

d)

fish

19.

After the Sirens seduce a man, they . . .

a)

let him go

b)

eat him

c)

marry him

d)

sing to him

20.

Odysseus' major flaw is . . .

a)

Jealousy

b)

Fear

c)

Hubris

d)

Rage

21.

Theseus was a Greek hero who slayed the ______.

a)

minotaur

b)

cyclops

c)

sirens

d)

hydra

22.

The minotaur lives in the center of the . . .

a)

park

b)

lake

c)

mountain

d)

labyrinth

23.

She gives Theseus a magical thread and wants to marry him.

a)

Arachne

b)

Ariadne

c)

Athena

24.

When he saw that the sails were black, and not white, he thought that Theseus was dead and so committed suicide.

a)

King Minos

b)

King Aegeus

c)

Poseidon

d)

King Agamemnon

25.

What did Theseus do that angered the Gods?

a)

cursed at Zeus

b)

kidnapped Helen of Troy

c)

abandoned Ariadne

26.

Poor _______. She resisted and resisted, but finally gave in to Peleus.

a)

Thetis

b)

Ariadne

c)

Hera

27.

This prophecy is a motif in Greek mythology.

a)

son will overthrow father

b)

son will steal father's wife

c)

son will burn father's house

28.

He died in the Trojan War because two goddesses had been plotting against him since his birth.

a)

Odysseus

b)

Achilles

c)

Hercules

d)

Hector

29.

When Gaia, the Earth, and Uranus, the sky first tried to make children, something must have gone wrong because the children were all ________.

a)

deaf

b)

blind

c)

monsters

30.

He had to decide who deserved the golden apple.

a)

Paris

b)

Peleus

c)

Zeus