The Odyssey Quiz # 1 Books 1-9

1. What did Clytemnestra do while Agamemnon was at war?

 She supported her husband.

 She married another man.

 She fled from Greece.

 She traveled to see Penelope.

2. How do Menelaus and Helen know that Telemachus is Odysseus’s son?

 There is a distinctive family resemblance.

 They received word from Penelope.

 Athena introduces him as Odysseus’s son.

 Odysseus’s son was prophesied to visit them.

3. What do Menelaus and Helen say about Odysseus?

 They tell Telemachus that they have no news of Odysseus.

 They slander Odysseus and discuss his cowardice in battle.

 Menelaus reveals that he and Odysseus fled Troy together.

 They give examples of his cleverness and masterful disguises.

4. Who reveals to Menelaus that Odysseus is trapped by Calypso?

 Helen

 Agamemnon

 Proteus

 Athena

5. Who comforts Penelope when she fears that she will lose her son?
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 Athena, in the form of Penelope’s sister

 Athena, in the form of Telemachus

 The herald Medon

 Helen

6. Whom does the narrator of the Odyssey invoke in order to inspire him to tell the story?

 Jesus Christ

 The Muse

 His dead ancestors

 Zeus

7. When does the story take place?

 Ten years before the Trojan War

 In the middle of the Trojan War

 Ten years after the Trojan War

 33 A.D.

8. Why won’t Calypso let Odysseus leave the island of Ogygia?

 Because she has fallen in love with him

 Because he is a threat to her power

 Because she has made a promise to Penelope

 Because the gods told her not to

9. What does Athena predict for Odysseus?

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 That he has died in battle and cannot be found

 That he has fallen in love with another woman

 That he is alive and will return to Ithaca

 That he will never return to his wife and son

10. When does Penelope say that she will choose a suitor?

 When she finishes knitting a burial shroud

 When Telemachus finally gets married

 When Calypso lets Odysseus leave Ogygia

 When Athena forces her to choose one

11. What do the gods decide to do about Odysseus?

 Not intervene in any way

 Force Calypso to let him go

 Have Calypso fight Hermes for him

 Send Zeus to rescue Odysseus

12. What is Calypso’s big gripe against the gods?

 Male gods are allowed lovers and goddesses are not.

 They are choosing to interfere for entertainment purposes.

 Male gods have more power than goddesses do.

 Odysseus has chosen to stay on her island voluntarily.

13. What does Poseidon do when he realizes what the gods have done?
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 He asks Zeus to change his mind.

 He threatens to punish Calypso.

 He finds Odysseus and threatens him.

 He generates a violent storm.

14. Who gives Odysseus a veil to keep him safe after his ship is destroyed?

 Athena

 Ino

 Hermes

 Calypso

15. Whom does Nausicaa find when she goes to the river?

 Odysseus

 Suitors

 Athena

 The queen

16. What does the young girl do to help Odysseus get to the palace?

 She tells King Alcinous of his arrival.

 She conjures a protective mist for him.

 She enables Nausicaa to guide him.

 She helps transport him on horseback.

17. What does Alcinous fear Odysseus to be?

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 A god

 A bad omen

 A sorcerer

 A martyr

18. Why is Arete suspicious of Odysseus?

 Because he is courting her daughter

 Because he refuses to explain his circumstances

 Because he is wearing Nausicaa’s clothing

 Because she does not trust anyone from Greece

19. What does Alcinous offer Odysseus?

 Great wealth and power

 The chance to challenge Broadsea

 His wife’s best made clothing

 His daughter’s hand in marriage

20. What saddens Odysseus at the feast?

 He thinks of Penelope.

 The mention of battles he has fought

 Nausicaa rejects his proposal.

 He loses an athletic challenge.

21. What happens to Odysseus’s men after they destroy Ismarus?

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 They narrowly escape attack from the natives.

 They come to power and take over the city.

 They take the time to reinforce their own armies.

 They seek local women to take as wives.

22. What happens when Odysseus’s men eat the lotus fruit?

 They become entranced by the land’s women.

 They become greedy and ransack the city.

 They lose all desire to do anything but eat the fruit.

 They violently rebel against Odysseus.

23. Who is the Cyclops Polyphemus’s father?

 Zeus

 Odysseus

 Cicones

 Poseidon

24. What do Odysseus and his men do to Polyphemus when he gets drunk?

 Run out of the cave

 Kill him

 Blind him

 Call out to his neighbors

25. What does Odysseus say that his name is?

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 Alcinous

 Nobody

 Somebody

 Achilles