Odyssey test
1. Who is the Mother of Achilles?
Answer: Thetis
2. Who is the Mother Earth?
Answer: Gaia
3. Who is the Queen of the Underworld?
Answer: Persephone
4. Who is the Queen of the gods?
Answer: Hera
5. Who is the King of the gods?
Answer: Zeus
6. Who is the Goddess of wisdom?
Answer: Athena
7. Who is the Goddess of love?
Answer: Aphrodite
8. Who is the God of war?
Answer: Ares
9. Who is the God of the Underworld?
Answer: Hades
10. Who is the God of the sun, music, poetry?
Answer: Apollo
11. Who is the God of the sea?
Answer: Poseidon
12. Who is the God of fire and blacksmithing?
Answer: Hephaestus
13. Who is the Father of Zeus?
Answer: Cronus
14. Who is the Father Heaven?
Answer: Uranus
15. Who is the Messenger to the gods?
Answer: Hermes
16. Who overthrows Uranus by castrating him?
Answer: Cronus
17. Who stops his children from overthrowing him by eating them?
Answer: Cronus
18. Who presents her husband with a rock wrapped in a blanket to save another child?
Answer: Rhea
19. When Rhea’s husband ate the rock, he thought he was eating...?
Answer: Zeus
20. Who were the three titans who sided with the Olympians in the Battle of the Titans?
Answer: Oceanus, epimetheos, Prometheus
21. Who does Zeus force to hold up the sky because of his role in the Battle of the Titans?
Answer: Atlas
22. Whom did Paris choose as “the fairest of them all”?
Answer: Aphrodite
23. What was Paris’s reward for selecting “the fairest of them all”?
Answer: Helen
24. Who is the goddess of discord?
Answer: Eris
25. Who pulls the sun across the sky in his chariot?
Answer: Helios
26. The Iliad opens with a feud between?
Answer: Achilles and Agamemnon
27. Who are Achilles’ men?
Answer: Myrmidons
28. Who is the King of Pylos?
Answer: Nestor
29. Who is Agamemnon’s murderer?
Answer: Aegisthus
30. Who are the two men who fight over Helen?
Answer: Paris and Menelaus
31. Who is the best warrior for the Greeks?
Answer: Achilles
32. Who is the King from Ithaca who made a pact to fight for Helen should she ever be kidnapped?
Answer: Odysseus
33. Who is the best warrior for the Trojans?
Answer: Hector
34. Who was mistaken for Achilles and killed by Hector?
Answer: Patroclus
35. Who kills Achilles?
Answer: Paris
36. Whose body was dragged around by Achilles and disrespected?
Answer: Hector
37. Who is Achilles’ concubine who is taken by Agamemnon?
Answer: Briseis
38. Who has his body returned to the Greeks for a respectful burial?
Answer: Hector
39. Who kills himself after losing Achilles’ armor to Odysseus?
Answer: Ajax
40. Who is the Trojan prince who does not want to fight in the war, but feels it is his duty?
Answer: Aeneas
41. Who kidnaps the priest of Apollo’s daughter as a war prize?
Answer: Agamemnon
42. Who is the priest of Apollo’s daughter?
Answer: Chryses
43. Who is the King of Sparta?
Answer: Menelaus
44. Who is the King of Troy?
Answer: Priam
45. Who is the mother of Helen and Clytemnestra?
Answer: Leda
46. Who is the Muse of epic poetry?
Answer: Calliope
47. Who punishes the Greeks for kidnapping the priest’s daughter?
Answer: Apollo
48. Who is the wife of Agamemnon?
Answer: Clytemnestra
49. Who is the son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra?
Answer: Orestes
50. What is it called when the story begins with the plot already underway?
Answer: In medias res
51. What is the quality that combines wisdom and cunning?
Answer: Metis
52. What term refers to seeking fame and glory?
Answer: Kleos
53. What term refers to showing hospitality?
Answer: Xenia
54. What is a deviation from the main plot called?
Answer: Digression
55. What is it called when a part represents the whole?
Answer: Synecdoche
56. What is it called when there is confusion of the senses? Example: “He took an arrow that was lying upon the table—for those which the Achaeans were so shortly to taste were all inside the quiver.”
Answer: Enjambment
57. Who breaks his neck falling from Circe’s roof and calls himself “a poor unlucky fellow”?
Answer: Elpenor
58. What is an understatement where the positive is expressed through the negative?
Answer: Litotes
59. What is a compound adjective used to describe qualities, such as "god-like Achilles" or "rosy-fingered dawn"?
Answer: Epithets
60. What is the reference in Book 12 to the Argo, the ship of Jason and the Argonauts in the myth of the Golden Fleece?
Answer: Allusion
61. Odysseus’s marriage bed is a _________ of the strength of their marriage.
Answer: Symbol
62. What is the phrase “Stand by my side and put your courage into my heart as on the day when we loosed Troy’s fair diadem (crown) from her brow” an example of?
Answer: Invocation
63. What is the substitution of the name of an attribute or adjunct for that of the thing meant called?
Answer: Metonymy
64. What function does Melanthius serve in emphasizing the difference between a loyal and a disloyal servant?
Answer: Foil
65. What is an unlikely or contrived ending, such as a goddess showing up to save you?
Answer: Deus ex machina
66. What is the message about the ability to see another person as potentially like oneself and the dangers of xenophobia?
Answer: Empathy
67. What is the message that Odysseus is fated to escape his noose of pain?
Answer: Fate
68. What is the message that there are dangers in giving in to temptation?
Answer: Temptation
69. What is it called when, while drinking Odysseus’s wine and boasting, Antinous is shot in the throat?
Answer: Irony
70. What are the cannibalistic giants who ate many of Odysseus's men and destroyed eleven of his twelve ships by launching rocks from high cliffs?
Answer: Laestrygonians
71. Who is the Cyclops, son of Poseidon?
Answer: Polyphemus
72. Who is the sea nymph who gives Odysseus a magical veil?
Answer: Ino
73. Who holds Odysseus captive for seven years?
Answer: Calypso
74. Who turns Odysseus’s men into swine?
Answer: Circe
75. What happens when Odysseus and his men take Ismara by surprise and slay most of the men, later being attacked by reinforcements?
Answer: They are forced to flee their ships
76. Who gives Odysseus’s men intoxicating fruit?
Answer: The Lotus-Eaters
77. Who is the six-headed monster?
Answer: Scylla
78. Who is the keeper of the winds?
Answer: Aeolus
79. Who is the blind Theban Prophet?
Answer: Tiresias
80. Who is the King of Phaeacia?
Answer: Alcinous
81. What is the whirlpool called?
Answer: Charybdis
82. Who are the excellent mariners and skilled with all kinds of sea activities?
Answer: The Phaeacians
83. Who is the sun god whose cattle are eaten by Odysseus’s men?
Answer: Helios
84. Who informs Calypso to release Odysseus?
Answer: Hermes
85. Who sleeps with the suitors and is hanged?
Answer: Melantho
86. Who is the loyal swineherd?
Answer: Eumaeus
87. Who is Odysseus’s loyal nurse?
Answer: Eurycleia
88. Who is the loyal cowherd who kills Ctessipus after he throws a cow hoof at Odysseus?
Answer: Philoetius
89. Who is punished by having his liver eaten by vultures?
Answer: Tantalus
90. Who is punished by pushing a boulder up a mountain?
Answer: Sisyphus
91. Who is punished by being surrounded by water and unable to drink?
Answer: Tantalus
92. Who kills Aegisthus, paralleling Telemachus’s journey?
Answer: Orestes
93. What is the main quest of the first four chapters of The Odyssey?
Answer: Telemachus’s search for news of his father
94. What do Odysseus’s men put in their ears to avoid these deadly creatures?
Answer: Wax
95. What is the message from the underworld: being a servant in a poor man’s house is better than being king among the dead?
Answer: The value of life over power
96. Who is Odysseus’s faithful wife?
Answer: Penelope
97. Who is Odysseus’s father?
Answer: Laertes
98. Who is Odysseus’s son?
Answer: Telemachus
99. Who is Odysseus’s loyal dog?
Answer: Argos
100. Who is Odysseus’s mother?
Answer: Anticlea
101. Who is the worst of the suitors?
Answer: Antinous