Miss Rhitta’s Odyssey Quiz

In Penelope’s archery contest, through how many axes must Odysseus fire his arrow?

Twelve

Thirty

Eight

Which plant makes the sailors forget their desire to return home?

Lotus

Poppy

Hemlock

How does Athena disguise herself to make preparations for Telemachus’s journey?

As a beggar

As a Mentor

As Mephistopheles

Who is Argos

Odysseus’s dog

The Cyclops

The Master of the Wind

Who first finds Odysseus on the island of Scheria?

Circe

Telemachus

Nausicaa

Who has an affair with Eurymachus?

Circe

Melantho

Penelope

Menelaus is king of which city?

Sparta

Athens

Argos

Eurycleia recognizes Odysseus based on what distinguishing feature?

A scar on his leg

His cunning

The sound of his voice

How is Odysseus able to listen safely to the Sirens’ song?

He has his men tie him to the ship’s mast

Athena makes the Sirens appear ugly to him.

He isn’t; he plugs his ears with wax as the ship passes the Sirens’ island.

Of what did Odysseus’s mother die?

Grief

Old age

Starvation

What happens to the disloyal maids after they clean the blood from the great hall?

They are hanged

They are whipped

They are dismissed from the palace

In about what year was the Odyssey composed?

700 b.c.e

200 b.c.e

10,000 b.c

Who transforms Odysseus’s sailors into pigs?

Circe

Athena

Poseidon

Which goddess often assists Odysseus and Telemachus, and speaks up for them in the councils of the gods on Mount Olympus?

Athena

Calypso

Circe

Penelope

Why does Poseidon despise Odysseus?

Odysseus blinded his son

Odysseus and his men attacked him.

Odysseus tricked him with a disguise.

Who does Zeus send to rescue Odysseus from Calypso?

Hermès

Athena

Ares

Melantho

Which two characters provide a point of comparison for Odysseus and Telemachus?

Agamemnon and Orestes

Helen and Menelaus

Poseidon and Proteus

How long does Odysseus spend on Calypso’s island?

Seven years

One year

Three years

What gift does Telemachus accept from Menelaus?

A silver mixing-bowl finished with a lip of gold

A monkey

A chariot and team of horses

What does Tiresias warn Odysseus not to harm on his voyage?

The cattle of the sun

The serpent of the seas

The eagle of the moon

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