The Odyssey Trivia Questions

Sample The Odyssey Quiz Questions

A mix of easy, medium and hard — questions run from warm-up to expert, so there's a real challenge at every level. Think you know the answers? Play to find out.

1. 1.This Greek hero spent 10 years trying to return home to Ithaca after the Trojan War.

   Difficulty: Easy
   • Odysseus
   • Achilles
   • Hector
   • Ajax

2. 2.The one-eyed giant whom Odysseus blinds to escape from his cave.

   Difficulty: Medium
   • Scylla
   • Polyphemus
   • Charybdis
   • Argus

3. 3.The scholarly debate over whether Homer was a single author or multiple poets contributing to the epics.

   Difficulty: Hard
   • The Homeric Question
   • The Authorship Problem
   • The Unity Debate
   • The Oral Tradition Question

4. 4.The island kingdom that Odysseus rules and desperately tries to reach throughout the epic.

   Difficulty: Easy
   • Troy
   • Ithaca
   • Sparta
   • Athens

5. 5.The dead prophet Odysseus must consult in the Underworld to learn how to get home.

   Difficulty: Medium
   • Tiresias
   • Orpheus
   • Cassandra
   • Calchas

6. 6.The scholars whose fieldwork with Yugoslav poets proved that long epics could be composed orally.

   Difficulty: Hard
   • Wolf and Bentley
   • Parry and Lord
   • Kirk and Janko
   • Nagy and Martin

7. 7.The ancient Greek poet credited with composing both The Odyssey and The Iliad.

   Difficulty: Easy
   • Virgil
   • Sophocles
   • Homer
   • Aristotle

8. 8.The giant cannibals who destroy all of Odysseus's ships except his own.

   Difficulty: Medium
   • The Cyclopes
   • The Laestrygonians
   • The Cimmerians
   • The Lotus-Eaters

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