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Just in case you might like a professor's suggestions on studying for quizzes, I thought I'd post these suggestions for methods that I discovered on my own in college and a couple of methods that, now that I'm on the other side of the desk, I think might work.

Studying for quizzes involves, first, reading the material. I've never been the sharpest tack in the drawer, so I always read the assignments twice. Actually, I read carefully once, and then read quickly the second time. The second thing that I did was, on my first reading, to write down all of the proper nouns-names of people and places. Third, I would add a small descriptor after the name. That might be a word indicating some object (like a shawl), or some connection of one character to another (like Ino's giving the shawl to Odysseus).

Methods that some of my students tell me work well include mapping out the relationships between characters using lines that are labeled with the type of relationship. Some students focus on the central character and map outward from there.

I think that the concentrating on the names of the characters helps you to find some way of organizing the plot, the relationships, and the themes in the readings. And studying well for quizzes is the best way to prepare for exams.