The Odyssey - Skills Review

What is the best category for the passage below?

"Her mind in torment, wheeling like some lion at bay, dreading gangs of hunters closing their cunning ring around him for the finish"

• Characterization

• Plot-Summary

• Simile

• Symbolism

It took ​ (a)   more than 9 years to return home from Troy.

• Odysseus
• Penelope
• Telemachus
• Mentor

The​ (a)   of The Odyssey invokes the ​ (b)   , asking for inspiration as he prepares to tell the ​ (c)   of Odysseus. The story begins ten years after the end of the ​ (d)   War, the subject of the Iliad. All of the Greek ​ (e)   except Odysseus have returned home.

• narrator
• Muse
• story
• Trojan
• heroes

What is the best category for the passage below?

Though she has not seen Odysseus in twenty years, and despite pressure the suitors place on her to remarry, Penelope never loses faith in her husband. Her cares make her somewhat flighty and excitable

• Plot-Summary

• Setting

• Symbolism

• Characterization

The Odyssey’s protagonist is ________, “the man of twists and turns.” The action of the poem is driven by Odysseus’s desire to return home and assert his claim to his house and family.

Match the following

• Wife of Odysseus

• Poseidon

• Son of Odysseus

• Zeus

• King of the Gods

• Telemachus

• God of the sea

• Penelope

• The protagonist of The Odyssey

• Odysseus

Which is the best category for the passage below?

At Pylos, Telemachus and Mentor (Athena in disguise) witness an impressive religious ceremony in which dozens of bulls are sacrificed to Poseidon, the god of the sea.

• Characterization

• Theme

• Plot-Summary

• Symbolism

Which is the best category for the passage below?

Although throwing a feast for a guest is a common part of hospitality, hunger and the consumption of food often have negative associations in The Odyssey. They represent a lack of discipline or submission to temptation.

• Symbolism

• Characterization

• Setting

• Summary

Match the following

• Athena

• Wife of Menelaus and queen of Sparta

• Circe

• The beautiful nymph who falls in love with Odysseus

• Helen

• The beautiful witch-goddess

• Nestor

• Daughter of Zeus and Goddess of wisdom

• Calypso

• King of Pylos and a former warrior

What is the best category for the passage below?

The Odyssey was composed around the year 700 B.C.E. The poem is set about 500 years earlier, around 1200 B.C.E., a period known as the Bronze Age.

• characterization

• setting

• simile

• Summary