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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part VI (Chapter Twenty Four - Chapter Twenty Seven).

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Aeetes tell Circe at Pasiphae's wedding that stuns her?
(a) He has been exiled by Helios.
(b) He has been given his own kingdom and is leaving.
(c) He has been condemned to death.
(d) He is becoming an evil sorcerer.

3. What does the leader of the sailors do to Circe in Chapter 14?
(a) Slaughters her animals against her wishes.
(b) Takes her prisoner on his ship.
(c) Steals her finest bowls.
(d) Rapes her.

4. What does Circe take from her old homeland?
(a) Her father's staff.
(b) Her old crown.
(c) Her old gold.
(d) The flowers that have the power to transform that she first used on Glaucos and Scylla.

5. What prophecy does Hermes tell Circe about herself?
(a) That one day she would become mortal.
(b) That one day she would marry Hermes.
(c) That one day she would die by her own daughter's hand.
(d) That one day Odysseus would come to her island.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the reaction of the gods and nymphs who know Scylla after her transformation?

2. What kindness does Circe do for her uncle who is punished in Chapter 2?

3. What phrase of Daedalus's does Circe remember in Chapter 12 while exiled on Aiaia?

4. Why is Circe nervous about Telegonus's journey to Ithaca?

5. Who is the niece of Circe's that she meets for the first time in Crete?

(see the answer key)

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