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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Circe experience during pregnancy?
(a) Ravenous hunger.
(b) Extreme sickness.
(c) Visions.
(d) Long bouts of deep sleep.

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

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

4. How does Circe feel after defeating Scylla?
(a) Relieved.
(b) Sad.
(c) Suspicious that Scylla is not really dead.
(d) Angry.

5. What does Circe tell Telemachus about her history with Scylla?
(a) That she was Scylla's sister once.
(b) That she hated Scylla because of Glaucos.
(c) That she created Scylla.
(d) That she envied Scylla.

6. What does Circe use as leverage to try to make Helios grant her request?
(a) The fact that he had committed war crimes Zeus did not know about.
(b) The fact that he had killed her mother and she was the only one who knew.
(c) The fact that she helped Prometheus centuries ago without his knowledge.
(d) The fact that he did not have the powers people thought he did.

7. What is the last thing Circe says to Helios before he leaves Aiaia?
(a) To give her greetings to her mother (sarcastically).
(b) That she always hated him.
(c) To never return.
(d) That she would cast a nasty spell on him.

8. What does Circe ask Helios for when she summons him in Chapter 25?
(a) A gold spear.
(b) More warmth for her herbs.
(c) Immortality for Penelope.
(d) To end her exile.

9. Which goddess comes to demand that Circe give her son to her so he can be killed?
(a) Athena.
(b) Medea.
(c) Diana.
(d) Ariadne.

10. In her vision of hers and Telemachus's future, what does Circe see?
(a) That she accidentally kills Telemachus.
(b) That Helios finally approves of her.
(c) That Helios kills both of them.
(d) That they have two daughters.

11. What is Circe's hope for her transformation as the book ends?
(a) That she will be made into a lion.
(b) That her transformation will make her father love her.
(c) That she will be made mortal.
(d) That her transformation will make her mother love her.

12. What does the name Scylla mean?
(a) The Wrath.
(b) The Ugly.
(c) The Sin.
(d) The Render.

13. What does Circe tell Telemachus about when he asks for stories of Odysseus?
(a) She tells him only of the heroic things Odysseus had done.
(b) She tells him the things the bards created songs about.
(c) She tells him lies about things Odysseus had done to make him sound worse.
(d) She tells of him all the brutal things Odysseus had done without glossing anything over.

14. Who is Odysseus's son?
(a) Jason.
(b) Aeetes.
(c) Telemachus.
(d) Telesphecus.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Circe name her son?

2. What is Penelope's reason for wanting to come to Aiaia?

3. Why is Telemachus angry with Circe?

4. What does Circe take from her old homeland?

5. Where is Odysseus from?

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