THE ODYSSEY FINAL EXAM ACTUAL QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Describe the challenge Penelope created to choose a suitor: - ✔✔string Odysseus's
bow and shoot an arrow through 12 ax heads
✔✔How long was Odysseus gone TOTAL from home? - ✔✔20 years! (10 years at war,
10 years getting home)
✔✔How many suitors did Odysseus and Telemachus have to kill? - ✔✔Over 100 !!
✔✔Polyphemus' dad - ✔✔Poseidon
✔✔What do Polyphemus' neighbors (the other Cyclops) think when he screams? -
✔✔they think that "nobody" has hurt him, so he is fine
✔✔What does Aeolus give to Odysseus? - ✔✔a bag of winds
✔✔This is where Odysseus and his men go after they get thrown off track from the bag
of winds - ✔✔they go back to get help from Aeolus, but get rejected, so they then go to
the Land of the Laestrygonians
✔✔How long do Odysseus and his men live with Circe? - ✔✔Odysseus and his men
live with Circe for 1 year
✔✔Odysseus' decision in order to save his crew from dying from Charybdis and Scylla -
✔✔Odysseus decides to go towards Scylla, so only 6 men die, and not the whole ship
✔✔What did Penelope do every night before she went to bed to stall and avoid having
to choose a suitor to marry? - ✔✔Penelope wove and unwove a cloth
✔✔Antinous - ✔✔leader among the suitors
✔✔Eurymachus - ✔✔"second" suitor in charge, cares mostly about his reputation
✔✔Charybdis - ✔✔giant man-eating whirlpool
✔✔Scylla - ✔✔a monster with 6 heads
✔✔Tiresias - ✔✔blind prophet who advised Odysseus
✔✔Polyphemus - ✔✔the Cyclops who imprisoned Odysseus, man eating one eyed
monster
, ✔✔Poseidon - ✔✔god of the sea, father of Polyphemus
✔✔Odysseus - ✔✔king of Ithaca and epic hero
✔✔How do Odysseus and his companions expect to be treated by the Cyclops? -
✔✔They expect to be treated with hospitality.
✔✔How do Odysseus and his crew ultimately escape from the Cyclops? - ✔✔They get
him drunk, stab him in the eye, and when he is blind they hide under the sheep and
escape the cave
✔✔The Odyssey was not written down at first, but passed down - ✔✔orally
✔✔An epic hero is a man who seems to conquer most problems he encounters
because - ✔✔he has no super (magic or immortal) powers.
✔✔In an epic, the language is - ✔✔formal or grand
✔✔A detailed and often complex comparison that is many lines in length is called an -
✔✔epic simile
✔✔A brief descriptive phrase that is often repeated in an epic is called an - ✔✔epithet
✔✔ Who composed the Odyssey? - ✔✔Homer
✔✔Where did Odysseus go to fight the war? - ✔✔Troy
✔✔Who is the king to whom Odysseus tells his story beginning the major flashback in
Book 9? - ✔✔Alcinous
✔✔Who is the king of Ithaca? - ✔✔Odysseus
✔✔King of the gods - ✔✔Zeus
✔✔goddess of wisdom, skills, and warfare - ✔✔Athena
✔✔Odysseus' father - ✔✔Laertes
✔✔Blind prophet who advised Odysseus - ✔✔Tiresias
✔✔Creatures whose songs lure sailors to their deaths - ✔✔Sirens
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔✔Describe the challenge Penelope created to choose a suitor: - ✔✔string Odysseus's
bow and shoot an arrow through 12 ax heads
✔✔How long was Odysseus gone TOTAL from home? - ✔✔20 years! (10 years at war,
10 years getting home)
✔✔How many suitors did Odysseus and Telemachus have to kill? - ✔✔Over 100 !!
✔✔Polyphemus' dad - ✔✔Poseidon
✔✔What do Polyphemus' neighbors (the other Cyclops) think when he screams? -
✔✔they think that "nobody" has hurt him, so he is fine
✔✔What does Aeolus give to Odysseus? - ✔✔a bag of winds
✔✔This is where Odysseus and his men go after they get thrown off track from the bag
of winds - ✔✔they go back to get help from Aeolus, but get rejected, so they then go to
the Land of the Laestrygonians
✔✔How long do Odysseus and his men live with Circe? - ✔✔Odysseus and his men
live with Circe for 1 year
✔✔Odysseus' decision in order to save his crew from dying from Charybdis and Scylla -
✔✔Odysseus decides to go towards Scylla, so only 6 men die, and not the whole ship
✔✔What did Penelope do every night before she went to bed to stall and avoid having
to choose a suitor to marry? - ✔✔Penelope wove and unwove a cloth
✔✔Antinous - ✔✔leader among the suitors
✔✔Eurymachus - ✔✔"second" suitor in charge, cares mostly about his reputation
✔✔Charybdis - ✔✔giant man-eating whirlpool
✔✔Scylla - ✔✔a monster with 6 heads
✔✔Tiresias - ✔✔blind prophet who advised Odysseus
✔✔Polyphemus - ✔✔the Cyclops who imprisoned Odysseus, man eating one eyed
monster
, ✔✔Poseidon - ✔✔god of the sea, father of Polyphemus
✔✔Odysseus - ✔✔king of Ithaca and epic hero
✔✔How do Odysseus and his companions expect to be treated by the Cyclops? -
✔✔They expect to be treated with hospitality.
✔✔How do Odysseus and his crew ultimately escape from the Cyclops? - ✔✔They get
him drunk, stab him in the eye, and when he is blind they hide under the sheep and
escape the cave
✔✔The Odyssey was not written down at first, but passed down - ✔✔orally
✔✔An epic hero is a man who seems to conquer most problems he encounters
because - ✔✔he has no super (magic or immortal) powers.
✔✔In an epic, the language is - ✔✔formal or grand
✔✔A detailed and often complex comparison that is many lines in length is called an -
✔✔epic simile
✔✔A brief descriptive phrase that is often repeated in an epic is called an - ✔✔epithet
✔✔ Who composed the Odyssey? - ✔✔Homer
✔✔Where did Odysseus go to fight the war? - ✔✔Troy
✔✔Who is the king to whom Odysseus tells his story beginning the major flashback in
Book 9? - ✔✔Alcinous
✔✔Who is the king of Ithaca? - ✔✔Odysseus
✔✔King of the gods - ✔✔Zeus
✔✔goddess of wisdom, skills, and warfare - ✔✔Athena
✔✔Odysseus' father - ✔✔Laertes
✔✔Blind prophet who advised Odysseus - ✔✔Tiresias
✔✔Creatures whose songs lure sailors to their deaths - ✔✔Sirens
