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Odyssey Vocab List 1 Review

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 9mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Choose the word that matches the definition: excessive pride.

a)

Hubris

b)

Guile

c)

Sage

d)

Polytheism

2.

Choose the word that matches the definition: belief in many gods.

a)

Polytheism

b)

Xenia

c)

Muse

d)

Ithaca

3.

Choose the term that matches the definition: cultural expectation to welcome strangers into your home and offer food, drink, and a place to rest (pronounced zen-ee-ah).

a)

Xenia

b)

Hubris

c)

Guile

d)

Nectar and ambrosia

4.

Choose the person described: blind poet of the Iliad and Odyssey.

a)

Homer

b)

Odysseus

c)

Muse

d)

Zeus

5.

Choose the place described: small Greek island; home to the hero of the Odyssey, Odysseus.

a)

Ithaca

b)

Troy

c)

Olympus

d)

Crete

6.

Choose the figure described: one of Zeus’s 9 daughters, known to give inspiration to rhapsodes, like Homer.

a)

Muse

b)

Sage

c)

Weird

d)

Talents

7.

Choose the phrase that matches the definition: in the middle of things.

a)

In medias res

b)

Offing

c)

Lee

d)

Lugger

8.

Choose the word that matches the definition: to get revenge for, get even for, settle a score; to punish someone or get satisfaction for a wrong or injury.

a)

Avenge

b)

Plunder

c)

Ventured

d)

Dispatched

9.

Choose the word that matches the definition: made a hole in.

a)

Bored

b)

Brace

c)

Withy

d)

Pectoral

10.

Choose the word that matches the definition: tree branches.

a)

Boughs

b)

Kids

c)

Victuals

d)

Talents

11.

Choose the word that matches the definition: a pair of something (2 of something).

a)

Brace

b)

Divers

c)

Tactics

d)

Offing

12.

Choose the word that matches the definition: repulsive scoundrel.

a)

Carrion rogue

b)

Guile

c)

Fugitives

d)

Weird

13.

Choose the word that matches the definition: loud continuous noise or uproar.

a)

Din

b)

Lee

c)

Lugger

d)

Whey

14.

Choose the word that matches the definition: finished quickly.

a)

Dispatched

b)

Ventured

c)

Mutinous

d)

Avenge

15.

Choose the word that matches the definition: several, various (adjective).

a)

Divers

b)

Prodigious

c)

Weird

d)

Sage

16.

Choose the word that matches the definition: group of persons who have run away from danger.

a)

Fugitives

b)

Kids

c)

Talents

d)

Tactics

17.

Choose the word that matches the definition: excessive pride (noun).

a)

Hubris

b)

Guile

c)

Xenia

d)

Muse

18.

A storyteller who traveled from city to city reciting stories of heroes is called a . . .

a)

icon

b)

rhapsode

c)

philosopher

d)

rhapsode