LUOA Odyssey Test Exam Questions With
Correct Answers.
Cerebus - answer✔What is Hades' animal / symbol?
orally - answer✔How was mythology originally recorded?
Homer - answer✔Who is the best known author of Greek mythology?
He was the most beautiful man alive - answer✔Why is Paris chosen to solve the goddess'
dispute?
Aphrodite - answer✔Which goddess promises Helen to Paris?
Odysseus - answer✔Who ordered the use of the horse to gain entrance into Troy?
Xenia - answer✔The Greeks believed that Zeus had divinely established this law, which means
that you are required to give hospitality to strangers. This was known as:
Out of Fear of the gods - answer✔Why did the Greeks do good deeds and serve in religious
ceremonies?
Epic - answer✔A piece of literature that is a long narrative (traditionally a poem) that follows the
journey of a great hero and his interactions with the gods and his fate is known as...
Invoking the muse - answer✔Epic poems often begin with...
Starts in the middle of the action - answer✔If a story begins in media res, that means it...
Hamartia - answer✔A hero's major character flaw is known as...
Excessive pride - answer✔Odysseus' fatal flaw is:
Zeus - answer✔Which god or goddess is symbolized by a lightning bolt?
Poseidon - answer✔Which god or goddess is symbolized by a trident?
Wise Mentor - answer✔What is the term for a hero's main helper, who provides training, insight,
and saves the hero?
The Ordinary World - answer✔A hero begins his journey in...
-Giving the hero something he must overcome
-Teaching a moral lesson to the reader
-Making the hero relatable - answer✔The hero's fatal flaw serve many purposes in the story,
including...
Calypso's island - answer✔Where is Odysseus trapped at the beginning of the story?
he plucked out Polyphemus's eye - answer✔What did Odysseus do to Polyphemus that angered
Poseidon?
Hospitality - answer✔Xenia is the divine art of
She weaves a burial shroud then undoes it - answer✔How does Penelope keep the suitors from
forcing her to make a choice?
Mocking - answer✔How would you best describe the tone of the suitors' speech toward
Telemachus when he returns home?
-Puts the suitors to sleep
-Tells him what to do to have a successful journey
-Calls a favorable wind to push the ship
-Recruits men for the ship
-Gives him wise advice - answer✔Which ways does Athena help Telemachus?
Athena in disguise - answer✔Who is Mentor?
Don't stay away too long - answer✔Nestor tells Telemachus about how Agamemnon's wife
conspired with another man to kill him and rule in his place. What is the lesson to be learned
from his story?
Poseidon - answer✔When Telemachus arrives at Pylos, the people are having a feast in honor of
_______.
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