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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 12, Calypso.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What supply do the men run out of aboard Ulysses' ship in Section 4?
(a) Water.
(b) Alcohol.
(c) Medicine.
(d) Food.

2. What animals are sacrificed so that Ulysses may talk to the dead?
(a) Cows.
(b) Pigs.
(c) Goats.
(d) Stags.

3. What does Calypso claim to have turned Ulysses into when she saw him fall from his raft?
(a) A bird.
(b) A fish.
(c) A dragonfly.
(d) An otter.

4. Who is sent to Ogygia to tell Calypso to release Ulysses?
(a) Apollo.
(b) Hermes.
(c) Athene.
(d) Poseidon.

5. Who warns Ulysses in Section 8 that he will encounter the Sirens?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Ajax.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Athene.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Polyphemus pray will happen to Ulysses?

2. Which god tells Zeus that Poseidon's treatment of Ulysses is unjust?

3. Who is Teiresias?

4. Who is Hyperion?

5. What is Ulysses told that Penelope weaves every day?

(see the answer key)

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