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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 1, Chapter 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the thorny issue facing the father of the young woman who is being courted by many suitors?
(a) He does not like any of the suitors.
(b) His daughter is pregnant with the child of a suitor.
(c) Because of her obsessive charm, the young woman evokes jealousy and possessiveness in her suitors, who will then become enemies of whomever her father chooses as her husband.
(d) His daughter is cursed.

2. What is the plan offered in the men's hall to choose the suitor?
(a) All suitors must forsake all gambling and drinking forever if they want to be considered.
(b) All the men who wish to be considered as suitors must swear oaths to protect the winner as blood brothers for the rest of their lives.
(c) All suitors must promise to defend the king all their lives if they want to be considered.
(d) The man who can fight off all the other suitors single-handedly will win the hand of the bride.

3. Who is the character that is perceptive enough to notice a softening in the ship captain's attitude?
(a) Hessia.
(b) Theseus.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Helen.

4. Who is considered the child of Zeus?
(a) Theseus.
(b) Sparta.
(c) Helen.
(d) Hessia.

5. Who is considered more intelligent than all the suitors combined?
(a) Penelope.
(b) Helen.
(c) Menelaus.
(d) Odysseus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who interrupts the suitors in the men's hall to present a plan for choosing the winning suitor?

2. What location is built of rock and considered an impenetrable fortress?

3. In Part 1, Chapter 5, who stalls making a decision on marriage by staging hunts instead?

4. In Part 1, Chapter 4, what does the king do that reveals his wisdom?

5. Who is considered as beautiful as Aphrodite?

(see the answer key)

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