Test 3 - The Odessy

Question 1

Itsy Bitsy Spider is closest to?

Answer 1

Sisyphus

Question 2

Who gives you Moly?

Answer 2

The Lotus Eaters

Question 3

Oldest Olympian according to Homer?

Answer 3

Hades

Question 4

What are Scylla and Charybdis between?

Answer 4

Italy and Sicily

Question 5

Who is NOT a judge of the underworld?

Answer 5

Koronis

Question 6

The North Wind

Answer 6

Boreas

Question 7

Who is Polyphemus’ mother, according to Homer?

Answer 7

Thoosa, a neried (salt water nymph)

Question 8

Who is the sirens father according to Homer?

Answer 8

Achelous

Question 9

What is the first feminist argument in western literature?

Answer 9

Calypso talking about how unfair it is that male gods can sleep with anyone/mortals and female gods cannot

Question 10

In Calypso’s argument with Hermes she describes ___ as killing___ for having sex with ___

Answer 10

Artemis, Orion, Dawn

Question 11

Who destroys Odysseus’s ship?

Answer 11

Zeus

Question 12

Tiresias is the prophet of which god?

Answer 12

Apollo

Question 13

How do you speak with the Shades in the Underworld?

Answer 13

Let them drink blood!

Question 14

In Hades what is Agamemnon’s advice to Odysseus?

Answer 14

Don’t trust women (Incel)

Question 15

Who tricks Thanatos and Persephone?

Answer 15

Sisyphus

Question 16

His sons and daughters are married to each other:

Answer 16

Aeolus

Question 17

Who is Spongebob?

Answer 17

Odysseus

Question 18

Who is Patrick?

Answer 18

Eurylochus

Question 19

Who is Neptune?

Answer 19

Zeus

Question 20

Who is Mindy?

Answer 20

Athena (Minerva)

Question 21

Who is Dennis?

Answer 21

Poseidon

Question 22

A pointless and Tedious task is:

Answer 22

Sisyphean

Question 23

Sirens and Mermaids share which trait?

Answer 23

The ability to sing

Question 24

What is the river of forgetfulness in the underworld?

Answer 24

The River Lethe

Question 25

In which underworld developed the idea of souls confessing their sins:

Answer 25

Aeneid, Vergil's book of the dead

Question 26

Book that introduced Reincarnation

Answer 26

Plato's myth of Er

Question 27

What first introduced the Nine Circles of Hell?

Answer 27

Dante's Inferno

Question 28

Which book was the author/narrator given a tour of the underworld by Sybil?

Answer 28

Aeneid, Vergil's book of the dead

Question 29

Aeolus gives Odysseus what as a parting gift?

Answer 29

Bag of Winds

Question 30

What does Odysseus NOT do before sex with Circe?

Answer 30

Demands she release his men from her magic

Question 31

Tiresias is a prophet in what city?

Answer 31

Thebes

Question 32

Who is Odysseus's mom?

Answer 32

Anticlea of Ithica

Question 33

What is the river of grief in the underworld?

Answer 33

Acheron

Question 34

What is the river of oaths in the underworld?

Answer 34

Styx

Question 35

What is the river of tears in the underworld?

Answer 35

Cocytus

Question 36

Who is the first person Odysseus speaks to in the underworld?

Answer 36

Elpenor

Question 37

Odysseus gets help from who about sirens and Charybdis and Scylla?

Answer 37

Circe

Question 38

Mermaids are descendants of who?

Answer 38

Atargatis

Question 39

Who kills Aesclepius?

Answer 39

Zeus

Question 40

The word mentor is associated with which god?

Answer 40

Athena (Minerva)

Question 41

Who is Polyphemus's mother?

Answer 41

Thoosa

Question 42

Giants who like to nom on humans

Answer 42

The Laestrygonians

Question 43

His island floats

Answer 43

Aeolus

Question 44

Heroin addicts would feel right at home here:

Answer 44

The Island of the Lotus Eaters

Question 45

Who helps Odysseus defeat Circe?

Answer 45

Hermes

Question 46

Who are the first people to commit murder?

Answer 46

Danaids, killed their husbands

Question 47

What does David Hasselhoff represent?

Answer 47

Fast black ship

Question 48

Who was the first witch in Western literature?

Answer 48

Circe

Question 49

Who was the first trans character in Western Literature?

Answer 49

Tiresias

Question 50

Why was Tiresias transformed into a woman?

Answer 50

Hitting some screwing snakes with a staff

Question 51

What is an Electra complex?

Answer 51

Female form of Oedipus complex. A woman who is sexually attracted to her father

Question 52

What is the first court drama?

Answer 52

The third Orestia, Eumenides

Question 53

How does Agamemnon die?

Answer 53

Stabbed by his wife Clytemnestra, because she is in love with Aegisthus

Question 54

How does Clytemnestra die?

Answer 54

Killed by her son Orestes to avenge his father Agamemnon