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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. How does Daedalus attempt to escape Crete?
(a) By building in invisible ship.
(b) By making a set of wings out of birds' feathers and candle wax.
(c) By buying airplane tickets in secret.
(d) By praying to Athena to smuggle him out.

2. What important task does Telemachus offer to do for Circe in Chapter 23?
(a) Build an enchanted stone wall.
(b) Fix Telegonus's boat.
(c) Make dinner.
(d) Mend the sty.

3. What happens to Odysseus's men before they can return to Ithaca from Aiaia?
(a) They are snatched by the mermaids.
(b) They are re-enlisted in the wars.
(c) They are killed by the Cyclops.
(d) They are destroyed by Helios for killing some of his cows.

4. What is the whirlpool near Scylla named?
(a) Charybdis.
(b) Narwhalia.
(c) Athens.
(d) Miasma.

5. What does Telemachus actually do with the slave girls who had laid with the suitors?
(a) Hangs them.
(b) Makes them into goddesses.
(c) Sends them to Crete.
(d) Teaches them witchcraft.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Telegonus most desperate to know about from Circe as he grows up?

2. Who is Circe's grandfather?

3. What does Aeetes tell Circe he thinks about what she did to Scylla?

4. How long does Aeetes tell Circe he has had his powers?

5. Who is killed on earth habitually for getting the movements of the sun wrong?

(see the answer key)

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