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Odyssey Test 2021 Modified

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30 questions
20

Match the character to their correct description.

Draggable itemCorresponding Item
Antinous
I wanted to make Odysseus immortal and live with him forever.
Melanthius
I was the greatest of all Greek warriors and became a legend.
Circe
Odysseus arrival home was delayed because of the revenge of my father.
Tiresias
I turn people into pigs for fun, but am willing to help those I find worthy.
Achilles
I was the first to die in the battle of the suitors.
Elpenor
I survived against all odds until Odysseus returned to Ithaca.
Argos
I am loyal to Odysseus even though I was kidnaped and sold to his family.
Eumaeus
I am a blind phophet.
Polyphemus
I died at Circe's house and asked Odysseus for a proper funeral when he visited The Underworld.
Calypso
I spent most the battle of the suitors just hanging around.
2

T. leaves home to go see King Nestor. Where does King Nestor live?

2

How does King Nestor help T?

2

Which best describes the land of the Cyclops?

2

The cyclop's name was _____.

2

Why didn't the men kill the cyclops while he slept?

2

What magical garment saved Odysseus from drowning?

2

Circe sent Odysseus to _____________ so he could find ____________ and learn how to get home.

2

After the men ate Helios' cattle; ________ punished them.

2

Scylla ate _______ of Odysseus's men.

2

Ajax ______ to speak to Odysseus in The Underworld.

2

Odyssues's journey home took about _______ years.

12

Match the names of each step in the cycle of a hero to their definitions.

Draggable itemCorresponding Item
Trials
something happens to cause the hero to act
Resolution
a source of power or intelligence that helps the hero
Status Quo
when the hero leaves the ordinary world
Treasure
the smaller problems the hero faces in the journey
Call to adventure
the moment the hero reflects and plans on how to overcome the biggest obstacle
Departure
the biggest obstacle or challenge the hero faces
Return
this is what the hero aquires after the crisis
New life
this is what happens to the biggest obstacle the hero has to face
Result
the hero's world becomes ordinary again
Crisis
the hero is wiser, stronger, or somehow better than before
Assistance
how things work out in the story
Approach
Normal day-to-day life for the hero
2

When Odysseus has to fight the suitors to get his home, wife, and kingdom back.

2

Athena stops the fighting and declares peace.

2

When Odysseus stays with the swineherd and reveals himself to his son.

2

Cicones, Cyclops, Laestrygonians, Sirens, Scylla, Charbdis, Helios, Calypso

Read the excerpt and answer the following questions.
And I saw Minos there, illustrious son of Zeus, firmly enthroned, holding his golden scepter, judging all the dead … Some on their feet, some seated, all clustering round the king of justice, pleading for his verdicts reached in the House of Death with its all-embracing gates.
I next caught sight of Orion, that huge hunter, rounding up on the fields of asphodel those wild beasts the man in life cut down on the lonely mountain-slopes, brandishing in his hands the bronze-studded club that time can never shatter. I saw Tityus too, son of the mighty goddess Earth—sprawling there on the ground, spread over nine acres—two vultures hunched on either side of him, digging into his liver, beaking deep in the blood-sac, and he with his frantic hands could never beat them off, for he had once dragged off the famous consort of Zeus in all her glory, Leto, threading her way toward Pytho’s ridge, over the lovely dancing-rings of Panopeus.
And I saw Tantalus too, bearing endless torture. He stood erect in a pool as the water lapped his chin— parched, he burned to drink, but he could not reach the surface, no, time and again the old man stooped, craving a sip, time and again the water vanished, swallowed down, laying bare the caked black earth at his feet— some spirit drank it dry. And over his head leafy trees dangled their fruit from high aloft, pomegranates and pears, and apples glowing red,
succulent figs and olives swelling sleek and dark, but soon as the old man would strain to clutch them fast a gust would toss them up to the lowering dark clouds.
And I saw Sisyphus too, bound to his own torture, grappling his monstrous boulder with both arms working, heaving, hands struggling, legs driving, he kept on thrusting the rock uphill toward the brink, but just as it teetered, set to topple over— time and again the immense weight of the thing would wheel it back and the ruthless boulder would bound and tumble down to the plain again— so once again he would heave, would struggle to thrust it up, sweat drenching his body, dust swirling above his head.
And next I caught a glimpse of powerful Heracles— his ghost, I mean: the man himself delights in the grand feasts of the deathless gods on high, wed to Hebe, famed for her lithe, alluring ankles, the daughter of mighty Zeus and Hera shod in gold. Around him cries of the dead rang out like cries of birds, scattering left and right in horror as on he came like night, naked bow in his grip, an arrow grooved on the bowstring, glaring round him fiercely, forever poised to shoot. A terror too, that sword-belt sweeping across his chest, a baldric of solid gold emblazoned with awesome work … bears and ramping boars and lions with wild, fiery eyes, and wars, routs and battles, massacres, butchered men. May the craftsman who forged that masterpiece— whose skills could conjure up a belt like that— never forge another! Heracles knew me at once, at first glance, and hailed me with a winging burst of pity: ‘Royal son of Laertes, Odysseus famed for exploits, luckless man, you too? Braving out a fate as harsh as the fate I bore, alive in the light of day? Son of Zeus that I was, my torments never ended, forced to slave for a man not half the man I was:
he saddled me with the worst heartbreaking labors. Why, he sent me down here once, to retrieve the hound that guards the dead—no harder task for me, he thought— but I dragged the great beast up from the underworld to earth and Hermes and gleaming-eyed Athena blazed the way!’
With that he turned and back he went to the House of Death but I held fast in place, hoping others might still come, shades of famous heroes, men who died in the old days and ghosts of an even older age I longed to see, Theseus and Pirithous, the gods’ own radiant sons. But before I could, the dead came surging round me, hordes of them, thousands raising unearthly cries, and blanching terror gripped me—panicked now that Queen Persephone might send up from Death some monstrous head, some Gorgon’s staring face! I rushed back to my ship, commanded all hands to take to the decks and cast off cables quickly. They swung aboard at once, they sat to the oars in ranks and a strong tide of the Ocean River swept her on downstream, sped by our rowing first, then by a fresh fair wind.”
2

Minos is _____.

2

Orion is _____.

2

What tortures Sisyphus?

2

Whose ghost did Odysseus see in The Underworld?

2

Using context clues which answer best explains who Queen Persephone is?

2

What prevented Odysseus from staying longer in The Underworld?

2

If the big idea for the cartoon is devotion then the best 2 pieces of evidence would be ______.

3

The best universal theme based on devotion as a big idea would be ______.

2

What is a 'big idea' for The Odyssey?

3

Give an example from The Odyssey that is evidence of your 'big idea' and explain.

3

Give a second example from The Odyssey that is evidence of your 'big idea' and explain.

3

Write a universal theme for The Odyssey.

10

Summarize the following passage
BOOK I
Tell me, O Muse, of that ingenious hero who travelled far and wide after he had sacked the famous town of Troy. Many cities did he visit, and many were the nations with whose manners and customs he was acquainted; moreover he suffered much by sea while trying to save his own life and bring his men safely home; but do what he might he could not save his men, for they perished through their own sheer folly in eating the cattle of the Sun-god Hyperion; so the god prevented them from ever reaching home. Tell me, too, about all these things, oh daughter of Jove, from whatsoever source you may know them.
So now all who escaped death in battle or by shipwreck had got safely home except Ulysses, and he, though he was longing to return to his wife and country, was detained by the goddess Calypso, who had got him into a large cave and wanted to marry him. But as years went by, there came a time when the gods settled that he should go back to Ithaca; even then, however, when he was among his own people, his troubles were not yet over; nevertheless all the gods had now begun to pity him except Neptune, who still persecuted him without ceasing and would not let him get home.
Now Neptune had gone off to the Ethiopians, who are at the world's end, and lie in two halves, the one looking West and the other East. 1 He had gone there to accept a hecatomb of sheep and oxen, and was enjoying himself at his festival; but the other gods met in the house of Olympian Jove, and the sire of gods and men spoke first.