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WorksheetsQuiz on the Odyssey
Total questions: 12
Worksheet time: 24mins
What danger do the Lotus-Eaters pose to Odysseus’ men in the excerpt from the Odyssey, Part 1?
The Lotus-Eaters offer the men the Lotus plant, which causes them to lose interest in returning home.
The Lotus-Eaters are dishonest and try to mislead the crew about the route home.
Familiarity with the Lotus-Eaters is dangerous because they are cannibals.
The Lotus-Eaters deliberately cause the winds to subside.
In the excerpt from the Odyssey, Part 1, what quality for which Odysseus is famous is most clearly illustrated when he tells Cyclops that his name is Nohbdy?
He is clever.
He is courageous.
He is trained for battle.
He is an effective leader.
In the excerpt from the Odyssey, Part 1, why does Odysseus blind the Cyclops rather than kill him in his sleep?
Odysseus and his men lack the physical strength to kill the giant.
Odysseus’ heart is moved by compassion for the foolish Cyclops.
Odysseus and his men need the Cyclops to move the stone that blocks the cave’s entrance.
Odysseus’ men convince him that Poseidon will curse them if they kill any of the Cyclopes.
In which of these episodes from the excerpt from the Odyssey, Part 1, does Odysseus lose all his men?
The Sirens
The Cyclops
The Lotus-Eaters
The Cattle of the Sun God
At the end of the episode with the Cyclops in the excerpt from the Odyssey, Part 1, what does Polyphemus do that affects future events in the epic?
He destroys Odysseus’ ship.
He prophesies that Odysseus will visit Hades.
He begs his father, Poseidon, to curse Odysseus.
He tells Odysseus that he will chase him back to Ithaca.
If people are described as fugitives from justice, which statement is most likely to be true of them? Base your answer on the meaning of fugitives.
They are being held in jail.
They have run away to avoid arrest.
They have committed a minor crime.
They have been found not guilty at trial.
Which sort of situation would someone be most likely to want to avenge?
kindness to a needy stranger
feelings of self-hatred or disgust
remorse for an accidental wrong
an insult from a rival
In which activity would you be most likely to apply tactics?
participating in ballroom dancing
playing a game of chess
playing a guitar solo
knitting a scarf
In the excerpt from the Odyssey, Part 1, what ancient Greek value does Odysseus most clearly describe in these words to Alcinous? “Men hold me / formidable for guile in peace and war: / this fame has gone abroad to the sky’s rim.”
admiration for peacemaking
admiration for modesty
admiration for sincerity
admiration for cunning
What values important to the ancient Greeks inspire Odysseus’ observations in these lines from the excerpt from the Odyssey, Part 1? “In the next land we found were Cyclopes, / giants, louts, without a law to bless them. / In ignorance leaving the fruitage of the earth in mystery / to the immortal gods, they neither plow / nor sow by hand, nor till the ground.... / Cyclopes have no muster and no meeting, / no consultation or old tribal ways....”
admiration for devotion to one’s religion
admiration for physical size, strength, and power
admiration for agriculture, law, tradition, and social organization
admiration for a natural, pure life and surviving by one’s instincts
As they travel through the land of the Sirens in the excerpt from the Odyssey, Part 1, how do Odysseus’ men avoid falling under the Sirens’ spell?
Odysseus ties them up.
Odysseus plugs their ears.
They look only at their oars.
They listen only to Odysseus.
Which of these passages from 'The Sirens' in the excerpt from the Odyssey, Part 1, best supports the answer to how do Odysseus’ men avoid falling under the Sirens’ spell?
'... Sirens / weaving a haunting song over the sea / we are to shun, she said, and their green shore / all sweet with clover; yet she urged that I / alone should listen to their song....'
'... Therefore / you are to tie me up, tight as a splint, / erect along the mast, lashed to the mast, / and if I shout and beg to be untied, / take more turns of the rope to muffle me.'
'The lovely voices in ardor appealing over the water / made me crave to listen, and I tried to say / ‘Untie me!’ to the crew, jerking my brows; / but they bent steady to the oars....'
'... My faithful company / rested on their oars now, peeling off / the wax that I had laid thick on their ears; / then set me free.'
