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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. What does Telegonus point out to Penelope that surprises Circe in Chapter 23?
(a) The different cloud formations in the sky.
(b) The formations of the constellations in the clear night.
(c) The plants and herbs that Circe did not know he had noted.
(d) The different kinds of lambs on the island.

2. Who is Odysseus's father?
(a) Apollo.
(b) Daedalus.
(c) Laertes.
(d) Zeus.

3. Who was a great warrior that Odysseus had fought beside?
(a) Minos.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Daedalus.
(d) Achilles.

4. Who does Circe think may lead her to the halls of the dead someday?
(a) Hermes.
(b) Hades.
(c) Odysseus.
(d) Daedalus.

5. Where does Telegonus want to travel to in Chapter 19?
(a) Helios's halls.
(b) Ithaca.
(c) Persia.
(d) Mount Olympus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Telemachus actually do with the slave girls who had laid with the suitors?

2. Who is Odysseus compelled by the gods to go visit in Chapter 17?

3. What does Telegonus tell Odysseus before Odysseus dies?

4. What great weapon does Circe bring back to help protect Telegonus on his journey?

5. How does Circe keep Telemachus safe from Scylla?

Short Essay Questions

1. What kinds of stories does Odysseus tell Circe about his life during Chapter 16?

2. How does Telemachus reply to Athena when she makes her request of him?

3. In Chapter 17, what choice does Circe begin to hope Odysseus might make?

4. What does Circe suspect the gods of doing to torment her during childbirth?

5. What does Athena want Telemachus to do when she visits him on Aiaia?

6. What does Circe use as leverage against Helios when she summons him to ask him to lift her exile in Chapter 25?

7. What does Telemachus give to Telegonus as a parting gift?

8. What does Penelope ask Circe for to help her mourn for her husband?

9. What does Circe teach Penelope before she and Telemachus set off on their journey to find Scylla?

10. What does Penelope teach Telegonus to do that he had never been able to do before?

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