1. The Adventures of Odysseus
Greek Mythology
The Adventures of Odysseus

2. Who gave Cassandra the power to foretell the future?
Apollo

3. Why did Apollo later on regret of his gift to Cassandra?
She refused his love.

4. What did Apollo do to Cassandra’s power of prediction when the god regretted his gift to her?
He made no body
believe her prediction.

5. Whose temple did Cassandra hide when the Greek army sacked Troy?
Poseidon
Apollo
Athena
Athena

6. Which Greek chieftain drew Cassandra out from Athena’s temple, which offended the goddess?.
Ajax
Agamemnon
Menelaus
Ajax

7. Which god did Athena turn to for help in avenging herself on the Greeks?
Poseidon

8. Who came near to losing all his ships after the Greeks left for Greece?
Ajax
Agamemnon
Menelaus
Agamemnon

9. Who was blown to Egypt after the Greeks left for Greece?
Ajax
Agamemnon
Menelaus
Menelaus

10. Penelope told her suitors that she could not marry again before she wove a fine shroud for _______.
Herself
Odysseus’s mother
Odysseus’s father
Odysseus’s father

11. What did Penelope do to delay her finishing weaving the shroud?
She unwove each night what
she had woven during the day.

12. Who leaked Penelope’s trick to the suitors?
One of her handmaids

13. Which two men did Athena suggest that Telemachus go to for asking about his father’s news?
Nestor
Agamemnon
Menelaus
Diomedes
Nestor & Menelaus

14. Whom did Athena disguise herself as and accompany Telemachus on his way to Pylos, old Nestor’s home?
Mentor
An old sea-faring man
Mentor

15. All the gods felt sorry for Odysseus except for ______.
Hermes
Hades
Poseidon
Poseidon

16. Who took Telemachus to Sparta, Menelaus’s home?
Nestor
Nestor’s son
Hermes
Nestor’s son

17. Who recognized Telemachus at the moment of seeing him?
Nestor
Menelaus
Helen
Helen

18. On what did Odysseus set out to sea from Kalypso’s island?
A raft
A big ship
A log
A raft

19. What did the goddess, Ino, advised Odysseus to do when Poseidon made a strong tempest on the ocean, which made Odysseus see death before him?
To abandon the raft and
swim to shore

20. Ino gave Odysseus her _____, which would keep him from harm as long as he was in the sea?
veil

21. For how long had Odysseus swim in the waters before he reached the land?
Two days and nights

22. What job was Nausicaa doing when she met Odysseus?
Washing clothes

23. Why did Nausicaa directed Odysseus to fall back on his way to the palace and let her and her girls go on alone?
To avoid people’s gossip

24. What happened to Odysseus’s men when they tasted the flower food given by the Lotus-eaters?
They lost their longing for
home and wished only to dwell
In the Lotus Land.

25. Polyphemus, one of the Cyclops, was the son of ____.
Poseidon

26. What did Aeolus put inside the leather sack he gave Odysseus?
Storm winds

27. Why did Odysseus’s men opened the sack Aeolus gave him?
They thought it was full of gold.

28. Who destroyed all the ships of Odysseus except for the one he himself was in?
Laerstrygons

29. What did Circe turn Odysseus’s men into?
Swine

30. What made Odysseus unaffected by Circe’s deadly art?
The herb Hermes gave him.

31. According to Circe’s directions, where should Odysseus go in order to gain the knowledge for returning home?
The dark realm of Hades

32. When Odysseus go down the underworld, he must seek for the spirit of the prophet ____ to ask for help.
Calcus
Tiresias
Laocoon
Tiresias

33. Tiresias told Odysseus that the chief danger that threatened them was that they might harm the oxen of _______.
Sun

34. Who were the marvelous singers whose voices would make a man forget all else, and at last their song would steal his life away?
Sirens

35. What was Odysseus and his men to do to pass Sirens’ land safely?
To stop their ears with wax

36. What did Odysseus told his men to do so that he might hear Sirens’ song without risking his life?
To tie him to the mast so strongly
that he could not get away however
Much he tried

37. What did Odysseus’s men do to the sacred oxen of the Sun, for which they paid their lives?
They killed, roasted and ate them.

38. On whose land was Odysseus cast ashore when his ship was shattered by thunderbolt?
Kalypso

39. Athena told Odysseus to spend the first night of his return to Ithaca with his _____, a man faithful and trustworthy beyond praise.
The swineherd Eumaeus

40. ____ was the first person to whom Odysseus revealed his true identity after he returned to Ithaca.
Telemachus

41. It was decided that the next morning when the father and son returned to their palace, Telemachus’s job was to ______, so that they might start their plan of revenge.
To hide all the weapons of war,
leaving only enough for the two of them

42. At the moment Odysseus walked into his palace, Argos, his ______, recognized him instantly.
Old dog

43. What happened to Argos, after Odysseus left it?
It died.

44. What was the worst insult Odysseus received from the suitors, which caused Penelope’s concern of having a talk with him.
A blow

45. In Penelope’s plan, if Odysseus was dead, which suitor would she choose to marry?
The richest and the most liberal

46. Penelope said to the suitors that they should show the proper way of courting a woman of family and fortune by _____.
Giving her costly gifts

47. What did Penelope summon Eurycleia to do for Odysseus?
To wash his feet

48. Who was Eurycleia?
Odysseus’s old nurse

49. By what did Eurycleia recognize who the old bagger was?
The scar on one of his feet

50. How did Odysseus got this scar?
Made by a wild boar

51. What was the contest Penelope
demanded the suitors to partake in order to win her heart?
To string Odysseus’s bow and
shoot an arrow straight through
twelve rings in a line

52. Who was the only one that managed to string the bow before Odysseus did it?
Telemechus

53. What were the last two people that were left from the slaughter?
The priest & the bard

54. Who was the one of the two that Odysseus spared?
The bard