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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Daedalus feel about his role in bringing the Minotaur to the world?
(a) Guilty.
(b) Proud.
(c) Resigned.
(d) Elated.

2. Who is Circe's first divine visitor to Aiaia?
(a) Poseidon.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Hermes.
(d) Athena.

3. What does Hermes tell Circe about her voice that she has never heard before?
(a) That her voice is only a whisper.
(b) That her voice is similar to those of mortals.
(c) That her voice can speak in many different languages.
(d) That her voice is the most beautiful music in the world.

4. What animal does Circe transform the sailors into in Chapter 14?
(a) Snakes.
(b) Tigers.
(c) Turtles.
(d) Pigs.

5. Why is Aiaia significant to Circe?
(a) She knows it is where she will have six children someday.
(b) She knows it is where Helios proved his loyalty to Zeus, vanquishing a Titan and drenching the land in blood.
(c) She knows it is where she was fated to die eventually.
(d) She knows it is where her mother was born.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Helios do to Circe when she insists it was her power that changed Scylla?

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

3. In Chapter 13, who comes to Circe to lift the curse they carry?

4. What does Pasiphae tell Circe unites them in Chapter 11?

5. Who is Circe's father?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Aaetes treat Circe when he comes to Aiaia in Chapter 13?

2. What does Aaetes tell Circe at Pasiphae's wedding that shocks and saddens her?

3. How do the gods react to Scylla's transformation?

4. What are Circe's parents' opinions of mortals?

5. What special gift does Helios have that Perse asks him to use at the birth of each of their children?

6. What does Prometheus do that brings Zeus's wrath upon him?

7. Who is Zeus's father and how did he win his place as king of the gods?

8. How do Daedalus and Icarus escape Crete?

9. Why is Circe disgusted with Hermes' telling of how Ariadne dies?

10. Why does Circe think the house on Aiaia is so lovely in Chapter 7?

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