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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 prophecy does Odysseus hear about his own death?
(a) That he will be killed by bullets.
(b) That he will be killed by a new weapon.
(c) That he will die on dry land but be killed by the sea.
(d) That he will be killed by a beast.

2. What does Penelope tell Circe became of Medea?
(a) Medea married a divine cousin.
(b) Jason sought a new wife, and Medea burned her to death.
(c) Medea struck out on her own and married a sorcerer after Jason.
(d) Medea died in the war in Troy.

3. Who was it that first suggested Penelope and Telemachus should come back to Aiaia?
(a) Odysseus.
(b) Telemachus.
(c) Penelope.
(d) Telegonus.

4. What does Circe take from her old homeland?
(a) Her old crown.
(b) The flowers that have the power to transform that she first used on Glaucos and Scylla.
(c) Her old gold.
(d) Her father's staff.

5. What does Athena tell Telemachus she wants him to do?
(a) Start a new settlement of Greeks in Italy.
(b) Become a king in Crete.
(c) Slaughter everyone in Ithaca.
(d) Transform to become part deity.

Short Answer Questions

1. What chair of Circe's did Odysseus once like to sit in?

2. Where must Odysseus pass by on his way back to Ithaca?

3. How old is Telegonus when he accepts Athena's offer?

4. What happens to Scylla as she dies?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. Which god comes to Aiaia to give a prophecy about Odysseus to Circe, and what does she tell him?

2. What kind of a disposition does Circe's baby, Telegonus, have as an infant?

3. Who does Telegonus bring back to Aiaia with him after visiting Ithaca?

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

5. Why does Circe fear Penelope and Telemachus at first in Chapter 21?

6. What is Circe's most significant act of transformation, which she preforms on herself in Chapter 27, meant to achieve?

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

8. In Chapter 22, what does Telemachus tell Circe he and his mother, Penelope, had to endure while Odysseus was away at the wars?

9. What does Odysseus learn through the prophecy about how he will die?

10. Who is Odysseus's patron and why does she turn her back on him?

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