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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which of his six remaining sons does Nestor send with Telemachus in Book 3?
(a) Thrasymedes.
(b) Arteus.
(c) Perseus.
(d) Peisistratus.

2. With which hero did Odysseus first speak in Hades?
(a) Hercules.
(b) Ajax.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Achilles.

3. In Book 11, who is first to visit Odysseus from the dead?
(a) Persephone.
(b) Elpenor.
(c) Anticleia.
(d) Teiresias.

4. According to Nestor, who wanted the Achaeans to suffer on the way home from Troy?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Athene.
(c) Poseidon.
(d) Kronos.

5. Who killed Aegisthus for the murder of Agamemnon?
(a) Orestes.
(b) Atreus.
(c) Nestor.
(d) Menelaus.

Short Answer Questions

1. By what type of people did the Phaecians once live?

2. In Book 14, where does a disguised Odysseus tell Eumaeus he is from when asked?

3. What does the first spirit to visit Odysseus in Hades ask him to do?

4. Who led the group which wanted to leave Troy immediately after the war?

5. How does Athene reveal herself to the men gathered at Nestor's palace?

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