"The Odyssey" plot, characters, and vocab

Who is the author of "The Odyssey?"

• Cyclops

• Odysseus

• Homer

• Circe

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Who is the beautiful woman who started the Trojan War?

• Helen of Troy

• Penelope

• Sirens

• Circe

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What did Odysseus tell Cyclops that his name was?

• Kevin

• Odysseus

• Soldier

• No One

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Who did Odysseus stab in the eye causing him to be blinded?

• The Sirens

• Cyclops

• Odysseus

• The Soldiers

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What did Circe do to the Soldiers?

• She helped them find a place to nap.

• She turned them into pigs.

• She killed them.

• She took their leader and locked him up.

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How did Odysseus know what Circe did?

• He took pictures.

• He was helping her.

• He watched her through the window.

• He asked the Soldiers what she did.

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How did Odysseus trick Circe?

• He made her go home on the boat with them.

• He turned the soldiers back into men himself.

• He sent Cyclops to see her.

• He didn't eat the food and then he pulled out his sword when she tried to turn him into a gazelle.

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Who are the ugly creatures that look beautiful to men when they sing the most beautiful song, but they really want to kill them?

• The Sirens

• Circe

• Penelope

• Helen

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 What did Circe warn Odysseus of after they shook hands and became friends?

• Men cannot go to the song of the sirens because they would kill him.

• The Sirens are very beautiful and want to marry him.

• Poseidon will create a big storm in the sea.

• The suitors were trying to marry his wife.

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What did the men do so they wouldn't be tempted by the Sirens?

• Go a different direction.

• Disguise themselves as women.

• Ride in an airplane.

• Put cotton in their ears.

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