The Exam

Part I: Multiple Choice (content questions)

Part II: Who Said It? (Match the quotes to the characters)

Part III: Characterization and Theme: (Match to corresponding thematic ideas or characterization)

Part IV: Archetypes (multiple choice)

Part V: New reading passage (with multiple choice questions)

Odyssey ReviewFlyswatter Edition

Okay, here are my rules: You get one slap – let’s not get slap happy

You can only slap when I say – “1, 2, 3, GO!” so that everyone can hear me read the entire question

If you slap early, you don’t get the point

If I hear someone from the audience yell the answer, no one gets the point

If it is a tie, you get to go again

EVERYONE has to participate

When the poet starts telling an epic and he asks for assistance in telling the story from the Muse of poetry.

Exposition

Homeric Simile

Invocation

Quest structure

How were epic poems originally told?

Oral story telling

Theatrical Productions

When Odysseus’ men ate the cattle of the son god, they gave into…

curiosity hunger

How did Odysseus react when told to travel to the underworld?

Excited (I’m going on an adventure!)

Terrified (no mortal made it out alive)

What could have possibly mistaken for the monster known as “Scylla?”

A giant octopus

A giant squid

What did Helios say he would do when he threw a temper tantrum after realizing his cows were eaten?

Stop rising with the sun in the morning

Steal a lightning bolt from Zeus to kill the crew

Odysseus decides to spare some of the suitors

True False

Where is Odysseus from?

Ithaca Troy

The song of what creature entrances men?

Scyllas Sirens

Odysseus was frequently arrogant. This characteristic refers to his…

Hubris Ego

For how long was Odysseus gone before he returned to Ithaca?

About 10 years

About 20 years

How did Antinous act towards beggar?

Kind

Cowardly

Cruel

Pleasant

The test that Penelope sets for the suitors is a test of what?

Courage

Cleverness

Love

Physical Strength

What is the deal with the master bed?

It cannot be moved

It is sacred and blessed by the gods

Which literary device is in these lines “When the young Dawn with finger tips of rose touched the world…”

MetaphorPersonificati

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Which is an epithet that describes Athena?

Winged messenger

Grey-eyed goddess

The “summoner of cloud” is an epithet fit for…

Poseidon

Odysseus

Zeus

Demeter

“Squirming like puppies” and “crunching like a mountain lion” are examples of what literary device?

Epic similes

Similes

Epithets

Characterization

Who was the crew member who wanted to eat the cattle, despite the orders of Odysseus?

Eurylochus Elpanor

Who was the crew member who became drunk and fell to his death at Circe’s palace?

Polites Elpanor

Who is the son of Odysseus?

Eumaeus Telemachus

Hermes and Athena fit best into which character archetype?

The observers

The heroes

The helpers

The underdogs

The Odyssey fits which plot-pattern archetype?

The quest to know who you are

The quest to find the promised land

Elpenor best fits which archetype?

The trickster

The fool

An example of the “damsel in distress” from the Odyssey is…

Penelope

Circe

Calypso

Antinous

How did Odysseus act around the Lotus flower?

He was compelled by the effects of the fruit

He was weary and did not eat the fruit

How did the cave of Polyphemus appear?

Well-organized and stocked

Messy and disorganized

How did Odysseus prevent his crew from being compelled by the sirens?

He tied them all to the ship

He plugged their ears with wax

Odysseus chose not to tell his crew about which creature?

Charybdis

The sirens

Scylla

Helios

When Telemachus meets his father for the first time, he thinks Odysseus is actually…

A liar A god

Who said it? “Peace, Helios: sin on among the gods, shine over mortals in the fields of grain. Let me throw down one white-hot bolt, and make splinters of their ship in the windark sea.”

Athena Zeus

Who said it? “Dear father! Tell me what kind of vessel put you here ashore on Ithaca? Your sailors, who were they? I doubt you made it, walking on the sea!”

Polyphemus Telemachus

Who said it? “Son of Laertes and the gods of old, Odysseus, master of the land and sea ways, dissemble to your son no longer now. The time has come: tell him how you together will bring doom on the suitors in the town. I shall not be far distant then, for I myself desire battle.”

Athena Hermes

Who said it? “Comrades, he said, you’ve gone through everything; listen to what I say. All deaths are hateful to us, mortal wretches, but famine is the pitiful, the worst end that a man can come to.”

Odysseus Eurylocus