The Odyssey Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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The Odyssey Quiz | Eight Week Quiz B

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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What color yarn does Nausicaa's mother spin?
(a) Sun-drenched gold.
(b) Meadow green.
(c) Sea purple.
(d) Sky blue.

2. When captured by Menelaus, who had been stuck for 20 days, what did this being reveal to him to get his freedom?
(a) Menelaus is told how to get vengeance for his brother.
(b) Menelaus is told how to get Helen back.
(c) Menelaus is told how to get home and acquire more treasure.
(d) Menelaus is told how to get home, as well as the fate of three of his friends.

3. What does Mentes tell Telemachus in Book 1 that he must do?
(a) Make Penelope decide about marriage.
(b) Go on a quest.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) Thrust the suitors from the house.

4. Who gets Telemachus' supplies of wine and barley for his quest?
(a) Penelope.
(b) Athene.
(c) Eurycleia.
(d) Mentor.

5. As a result of the meeting of the assembly in Book 2, what do the suitors decide to do?
(a) To court other women, too.
(b) It's time to go home.
(c) It's time to give something back to Telemachus and his estate.
(d) Continue behaving as they have been.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Telemachus stay when Nestor's feast is over?

2. In Book 5, who orders Odysseus' release from Calypso?

3. Where does Calypso find Odysseus to tell him the news of his ordered release in Book 5?

4. How many times has the meeting of the assembly occurred since Odysseus left?

5. To which goddess does Odysseus compare Nausicaa in Book 6?

(see the answer key)

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