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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 is Penelope's reason for wanting to come to Aiaia?
(a) She wants to raise her husband's spirit from the dead.
(b) She knows Circe has barred the gods, especially Athena, from reaching the island and she wants to protect Telemachus.
(c) She wants to learn witchcraft.
(d) She wants to kill Circe.

2. How is Penelope related to Helen of Troy?
(a) She is her friend.
(b) She is her sister.
(c) She is her aunt.
(d) She is her cousin.

3. Who does Circe disguise herself as on the ship to Crete?
(a) Athena.
(b) Helios.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Aeetes.

4. Which of Circe's wolves is the most attached to Telegonus?
(a) Paris.
(b) Hernando.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Arcturos.

5. What is Telegonus most desperate to know about from Circe as he grows up?
(a) Stories about his father Odysseus.
(b) Stories about Circe's life as a goddess.
(c) Stories about how Circe casts her spells.
(d) Stories about his own birth.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Penelope ask Circe for so she can mourn for her husband?

2. What does Telegonus tell Odysseus before Odysseus dies?

3. What was Jason trying to obtain from Medea's father?

4. Where is Odysseus from?

5. Which uncle of Circe's is punished brutally by Zeus?

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