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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 is wrong with the sailors Aeetes brings with him to Aiaia?
(a) They are enchanted and controlled by Aeetes.
(b) They have been drugged.
(c) They have been badly beaten.
(d) They are malnourished.

2. What kind of a disposition does Circe's infant son have?
(a) Docile.
(b) Very active.
(c) Very cranky.
(d) Extremely sleepy.

3. Who comes back to Aiaia with Telegonus after he leaves Ithaca?
(a) Penelope and Telemachus.
(b) Pasiphae and Penelope.
(c) Penelope and Odysseus.
(d) Minos and Penelope.

4. Which of the following did Odysseus NOT fight with?
(a) Ajax.
(b) Achilles.
(c) Minos.
(d) Agamemnon.

5. What does Circe say when Hermes asks her if she will bear his child?
(a) No, never.
(b) Yes, in ten years' time.
(c) Not unless he would marry her.
(d) Not unless he would help her break her exile.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who comes to Aiaia with a prophecy for Odysseus?

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

3. What does Odysseus ask Telemachus to do with the slave girls who had laid with the suitors?

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

5. What does Circe experience during pregnancy?

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