Odyssey Test Review

What are the verbs?

Athena, disguised as a man, helps Odysseus on his journey back to Ithaca.

• disguised/on

• on/his

• journey/helps

• disguised/helps

Who is the God of the sea?

Match the following

• Husband of Penelope

• Mentor

• Athena is disguise

• Telemachus

• Son of Odysseus

• Penelope

• Mother of Telemachus

• Odysseus

• King of the Gods

• Zeus

Poseidon was ​ (a)   by Odysseus because the ​ (b)   King ​ (c)   his ​ (d)   , the Cyclops, in the ​ (e)   with a spear.

• angered
• Greek
• poked
• son
• eye

What is the best category for the text below?

As goddess of wisdom and battle, Athena naturally has a soft spot for the brave and wily Odysseus. She helps him out of many tough situations, including his shipwreck in Book 5 and the mismatched battle of Book 22.

• theme

• characterization

• symbolism

• setting

Homeric characters ​ (a)   generally static. Though they may be very complex and ​ (b)   , they do not change over the ​ (c)   of the work as characters in modern novels and ​ (d)   do.

• are
• realistic
• course
• stories

Just an (a)   when his father left for Troy, ​ (b)   is still maturing when The Odyssey begins. He is wholly devoted to his ​ (c)   and to maintaining his father’s estate, but he does not know how to protect them from the ​ (d)   .

• infant
• Telemachus
• mother
• suitors

Match the following

• Calypso

• an immortal goddess who holds Odysseus prisoner for seven years on the island

• Athena

• He despises Odysseus for blinding his son

• Circe

• Also like Calypso, she is described as “lustrous” and “the nymph with the lovely braids,”

• Poseidon

• The most arrogant of Penelope’s suitors.

• Antinous

• Daughter of Zeus and goddess of wisdom, purposeful battle, and the womanly arts.

What is the best category for the text 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.

• Summary

• Characterization

• Theme

• Setting

Reorder the following

• Athena commands all parties to stop fighting

• Odysseus is trapped on an island with Calypso

• Odysseus proves his identity to Penelope.

• Odysseus infiltrates Troy with a wooden horse

• Odysseus in transformed into an old beggar