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WorksheetsThe Final Odyssey Test
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 12mins
Who is credited with writing "The Odyssey"?
Odysseus
Homer Simpson
Zeus
Homer
When is The Odyssey set?
Before the Trojan War
During the Trojan War
After the Trojan War
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of an epic poem?
it is a long narrative poem
it has a vast setting
it is rooted in tradition of a particular society
it is completely focused on human deeds
Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of an epic hero?
has a tragic flaw/weakness
Is expected to overcome many difficult tasks
is able to complete his task without making sacrifices or encountering danger
has qualities, such as extreme bravery, that are enhanced beyond normal humans
Which of the following best describes the hero's journey?
A hero begins in an unknown world and struggles alone against a great evil to reach his ordinary world again.
Begins with an ordinary life, but is compelled to take a hero journey into the unknown. With help, the hero overcomes challenges and returns a changed person.
A hero eagerly heads out to find a magical world and fight everything he sees so he can rule the world as a more powerful, wiser person.
After becoming powerful and important a hero misses his old life, so he returns to the unknown to be destroyed so he can come back as his old, ordinary self and return to his old ordinary life.
Which best describes what happens after the hero's final battle or test according the The Hero's Journey?
The hero finds a bigger and badder enemy to fight to keep challenging himself again and again.
The hero gets married and lives happily ever after.
The hero becomes the ruler of the unknown and stays there as a new, more powerful person to rule and bring good to all of the people there.
The hero is reborn as a changed person and returns to his ordinary world with the power to help and bring good to people.
How does The Odyssey begin?
With a prologue that gives us an overview of what will happen.
With an invocation to the muse.
With a poem about Penelope crying.
With a sonnet
Why are the Lotus Eaters dangerous?
They try to eat Odysseus' crew.
Their flowers make you never want to leave.
Their song leads people to their deaths.
They will suck an entire ship down to the bottom of the sea.
Provide one example of hospitality that we see in either Ithaca OR Phaeacia.
Crying
Staying without being welcome
Feasting
Killing the monsters
How does Odysseus get his crew away from the Lotus Eaters?
He carries them back to the ship.
He tricks the Lotus Eaters into setting them free.
He doesn't. They all die there.
He sneaks them out under a flock of sheep.
Initially, how does Odysseus introduce himself to Polyphemus?
He has his crew announce that he is Odysseus, King of Ithaca.
He writes his name in sheep's blood.
He tells him that his name is Nobody.
He tells Polyphemus that he is also a son of Poseiden.
Which of the following does Odysseus give to Polyphemus?
wine
lotus flowers
wool
pork
Who does the following describe? "Whenever she spewed it out again, it bubbled and seethed in turmoil like a cauldron on a vast fire, and high overhead the spray rained down on the crags on either side. When she swallowed the seas, her inner vortex could be seen, and the rock echoed savagely round about, while below the seabed showed its dark-blue sand. My crew turned pale as we gazed at her, fearing destruction..."
The Lotus Eaters
Circe
Scylla
Charybdis
Who does the following describe? "As he spoke he reeled, and fell sprawling face upwards on the ground. His great neck hung heavily backwards and a deep sleep took hold upon him. Presently he turned sick, and threw up both wine and the gobbets of human flesh on which he had been gorging."
Telemachus
Polyphemus
Scylla
Charybdis
Where does the following happen? "At this, taking her wand, [she] went out of the hall and opened the gates of the sty, and drove out what seemed to be full-grown pigs. They stood there and she went among them smearing each one with a fresh potion. Then the bristles, that [her] previous hateful spell had made them sprout, fell from them, and they became men again, younger and handsomer and taller by far than they were before."
The Island of the Lotus-Eaters
Phaeacia
Circe's home
Ithaca
Read line 15 from the passage from The Odyssey: "Some demon calm'd the air and smooth'd the deep." What does the line describe?
The ship seems to be in danger
Ulysses is enchanted by the Sirens.
The weather has suddenly changed.
Ulysses thinks he can see the Sirens.
Which evidence from the passage provides the best clue about the meaning of line 15?
"And lo! The Siren shores like mists arise." (Line 12)
"Sunk were at once the winds; the air above" (Line 13)
"Lash'd by the stroke, the frothy waters fly." (Line 18)
"Plunge all at once their oars, and cleave the main." (Line 28)
Read the text: Which sentence States a theme of the passage from The Odyssey?
Pleasure is temporary, but knowledge is eternal.
Beautiful appearances can disguise evil intentions.
In difficult situations, people must learn to cooperate.
Even the greatest leaders can sometimes make mistakes
Which evidence from the passage most strongly supports the statement of theme?
"Celestial music warbles from their tongue, / And thus the sweet deluders tune the song" (Lines 31-32)
"'Approach! thy soul shall into raptures rise! / Approach! and learn new wisdom from the wise!'" (Lines 37-38)
"'We know whate'er the kings of mighty name / Achieved at Ilion in the field of fame'" (Lines 39-40)
"Then scudding swiftly from the dangerous ground, / The defean'd ear unlock'd, the chains unbound." (Lines 49-50)
Why does Odysseus choose to sail closer to Scylla in order to avoid Charybdis?
He knew that if he went to Charybdis, the whole ship would be destroyed.
He was most afraid of the six-headed sea serpent.
Scylla is too close to the Lotus Eaters.
The sirens lured him away from Scylla.
