Grade 8 · World literature
This quiz helps revise “Homer: the Iliad and the Odyssey” in World literature for grade 8. It has 25 questions in five categories: Epic Craft, Iliad Heroes, Sea Wanderings, Home on Ithaca, Gods and Prophecy. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.
Who is traditionally credited with composing the Iliad and the Odyssey?
What emotion of Achilles is announced at the start of the Iliad and drives its central plot?
Into how many books…
In the gameWhat six-foot poetic meter…
In the gameWhat is a repeated…
In the gameWhich Trojan prince is the city's chief defender and eventually faces Achilles in single combat?
Which Achaean commander takes Briseis and quarrels with Achilles, causing him to withdraw?
Which close companion wears…
In the gameWhich elderly Trojan king…
In the gameWhich smith god makes…
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How many years does the hero's journey home last after the Trojan War ends?
Which one-eyed Cyclops is blinded after the hero tricks him by giving his name as “Nobody”?
Which enchantress turns part…
In the gameWhose deadly song does…
In the gameBetween which two sea…
In the gameWho waits faithfully at home through her husband's twenty-year absence?
What is the name of the hero's son, who travels in search of news about his father?
What are the men…
In the gameWhat does the hero's…
In the gameWhat object cannot be…
In the gameWhich goddess repeatedly helps the wandering hero and guides his son?
Which sea god blocks the hero's return after the blinding of the Cyclops?
Which nymph keeps the…
In the gameWhich messenger god gives…
In the gameWhich blind Theban prophet…
In the gameAll 25 questions and the answers are in the game. Invite your class or friends with a link — guests need no account.