Practice The author of The Odyssey.

Practice Answer Homer

Odysseus Odysseus’ Challenges Important Places Important People The Gods Final Jeopardy

Question Odysseus’ home

Answer 1 – 100 Ithaca

Question The number of years that Odysseus is held hostage by Calypso.

Answer 1 – 200 Seven

Question Odysseus is referred to as “the man of twists and turns,” which is an example of this.

Answer 1 – 300 An epithet

Question This blind seer informs Odysseus how to get home.

Answer 1 – 400 Tiresias

Question Once he arrives home, Odysseus kills this suitor first.

Answer 1 – 500 Antinous

Question 2 – 100 Circe transforms Odysseus’ men into what kind of animal.

Answer 2 – 100 Pigs

Question Odysseus tells his men to stuff earwax into their ears in order to escape this type of creature’s song.

Answer 2 – 200 Siren

Question This happens to Odysseus’ men after they eat the lotus flower.

Answer 2 – 300 They lose their memory and forget that they want to go home.

Question The very first group of people Odysseus and his men encounter on their journey home. This group kills so many of Odysseus’ men, they are forced to flee.

Answer 2 – 400 Cicones

Question Scylla takes and kills this many of Odysseus’ men.

Answer 2 – 500 Six

Question The island where Calypso lives

Answer 3 – 100 Ogygia

Question The original place Odysseus traveled to (basically, the reason why he is trying to get home).

Answer 3 – 200 Troy

Question Odysseus and his men land on this island, which they find out is inhabited by cannibals.

Answer 3 – 300 Laestrygonia

Question Odysseus and his men return to this place to provide proper burial rites for Elpenor.

Answer 3 – 400 Aeaea

Question Alcinous and Arete are the king and queen of this country.

Answer 3 – 500 Phaeacia

Question Wife of Odysseus and mother of Telemachus.

Answer 4 – 100 Penelope

Question This person recognizes Odysseus because of a scar on his leg.

Answer 4 – 200 Eurycleia

Question This princess discovers Odysseus and brings him to her father, Alcinous.

Answer 4 – 300 Nausicaa

Question This person gives Odysseus a bag of winds before he leaves his island. Also known as the “Keeper of the Winds.”

Answer 4 – 400 Aeolus

Question When Odysseus finally arrives home, he visits this person first.

Answer 4 – 500 Eumaeus

Question This god kills all of Odysseus’ men by destroying their ship with a thunderbolt.

Answer 5 – 100 Zeus

Question This god visits Telemachus disguised as Mentes, lord of the Taphians.

Answer 5 – 200 Athena

Question We find out the Cyclops, Polyphemus, is the son of this god.

Answer 5 – 300 Poseidon

Question This god’s herd of cattle lives on the island of Thrinacia. Odysseus and his men kill the cattle after being warned not to.

Answer 5 – 400 Helios

Question This god visits Odysseus on Circe’s island and gives him moly, an herb to keep him from being affected by Circe’s potion.

Answer 5 – 500 Hermes

Final Jeopardy Odysseus meets and talks with several people in the Underworld. Name four of these people.

Final Jeopardy Answer Tiresias Anticleia Elpenor Agamemnon Achilles Ajax Epicaste, Chloris, Leda, Iphimedeia, Phaedra, Procris, Ariadne, Clymene, Maera, Eriphyle, Antilochus, Patroclus, Tantalus, Tityus, Sisyphus, Minos, Orion, Heracles