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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part V (Chapter Twenty One - Chapter Twenty Three).

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Odysseus ask Telemachus to do with the slave girls who had laid with the suitors?
(a) Send them to Crete.
(b) Teach them witchcraft.
(c) Turn them into goddesses.
(d) Kill them brutally.

2. What is the reaction of the gods and nymphs who know Scylla after her transformation?
(a) They are angry.
(b) They are suspicious.
(c) They are devastated.
(d) They are gossipy and gleeful.

3. What does Hermes tell Circe about her voice that she has never heard before?
(a) That her voice can speak in many different languages.
(b) That her voice is similar to those of mortals.
(c) That her voice is the most beautiful music in the world.
(d) That her voice is only a whisper.

4. Who finally stops Odysseus's reign of terror on Ithaca?
(a) Athena.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Circe.
(d) Telegonus.

5. What chair of Circe's did Odysseus once like to sit in?
(a) The wooden chair.
(b) The bronze chair.
(c) The silver chair.
(d) The gold chair.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Circe tell Telemachus about when he asks for stories of Odysseus?

2. What does Daedalus give Circe as a gift?

3. How does Daedalus attempt to escape Crete?

4. What ordeal do Telemachus and Penelope suffer after Odysseus goes off to war?

5. Which god fell in love with Ariadne?

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