The Odyssey Test study guide

Question 1

Tiresias

Answer 1

prophet

Question 2

Zeus

Answer 2

one who determined each of our characters’ fates

Question 3

Apollo

Answer 3

stalwart guide and protector to the hero alongside Athena

Question 4

Circe

Answer 4

goddess of sorcery who turned Odysseus men into pigs

Question 4

Helios

Answer 4

Odysseus’ men garner the anger of the sun god by slaughtering his beloved animals

Question 5

Polyphemus

Answer 5

the cyclops

Question 6

Poseidon

Answer 6

cyclops dad who makes Odysseus journey harder then it should’ve been

Question 7

Calypso

Answer 7

nymph who entertained Odysseus and kept him from going home for 7 years

Question 8

Odysseus

Answer 8

leader of the Trojan war

Question 9

Penelope

Answer 9

Wife of Odysseus

Question 10

Telemachus

Answer 10

Son of Odysseus and Penelope

Question 11

Hermes

Answer 11

the messenger of the gods and the conductor of the dead to Hades.

Question 12

Scylla

Answer 12

supernatural female creature who devoured 6 of Odysseus men

Question 13

Charybdis

Answer 13

a deadly whirlpool

Question 14

Antinous

Answer 14

one of the suitors in The Odyssey, is a violent and over-confident character who strives hard to take Odysseus’ throne.

Question 15

Athena

Answer 15

Greek Goddess of war

Question 16

Persephone

Answer 16

Odysseus encounters the “dread Persephone” in Tartarus when he visits his dead mother. Odysseus sacrifices a ram to the chthonic goddess Persephone and the ghosts of the dead who drink the blood of the sacrificed animal

Question 17

Alcinous

Answer 17

the king of Phaeacians, the guiding hand to which Odysseus can look up

Question 18

Epic

Answer 18

Story on a grand level

Question 19

Epic Hero

Answer 19

grand hero

Question 20

epithet

Answer 20

grand description of the character

Question 21

epic simile

Answer 21

complex poetic comparison