This document contains a quiz about characters and events from Homer's Odyssey. There are 25 multiple choice questions across 5 categories related to gods and goddesses, mortal characters, monsters, places visited in Odysseus's travels, and other miscellaneous details from the epic poem. The questions cover topics like which goddess helps Odysseus, who imprisons him for years, and where certain characters are from or live.

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2. What goddess aids Odysseus?
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3. Athena
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4. Who changes Odysseus into a beggar?
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5. Athena
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6. Who keeps Odysseus a prisoner
for seven years?
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7. Calypso
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8. Whom does Homer call on to
help tell his story?
Category 1: $400: A

9. Muse
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10. Who gives Odysseus directions
to Hades?
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11. Circe
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12. Which suitor does Odysseus kill
first?
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13. Antinous
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14. Who is Menelaus’s wife
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15. Helen
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16. What does Odysseus put in his
men’s ears to keep out the sound
of the sirens?
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17. wax
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18. Who cleanses the palace of
blood after Odysseus kills the
suitors?
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19. The servant maids
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20. What king is killed by his wife’s
lover?
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21. Agamemnon
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22. What monster sucks down sea
water three times a day?
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23. Charybdis
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24. How does the Cyclops close the
cave door entrance?
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25. With a large stone or rock
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26. How many heads does Scylla
have?
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27. six
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28. What are the sons of Poseidon
called?
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29. Cyclops
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30. What giant cannibals destroy all
but one of Odysseus’s ships?
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31. Laestrygonians
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32. Where does the Phaeacian ship
take Odysseus?
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33. Ithaca
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34. Where does Odysseus see his
mother?
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35. Hades
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36. What is the name of Calypso’s
island
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37. Ogygia
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38. Where do Helen and Menelaus
live?
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39. Sparta
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40. Where is Nestor’s palace?
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41. Pylos
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42. How many axes must the
suitors shoot through?
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43. twelve
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44. What is a singer of tales called?
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45. minstrel or rhapsode
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46. With whom must Odysseus
consult in Hades?
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47. Teiresias
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48. Who recognizes Odysseus first?
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49. His dog, Argus
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50. What is the prayer called which
traditionally opens an epic?
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51. Invocation to the Muse
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