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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which god(dess) visits Telemachus at the beginning of the poem?
(a) Hermes.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Athene.
(d) Kronos.

2. When sadness grips the feasting in her hall, causing Menelaus and his visitors to cry in remembrance of friends lost in Troy, what does Helen do to the wine?
(a) She pours it for the men.
(b) She adds a drug.
(c) She adds herbs to sweeten it.
(d) She warms it.

3. What does Mentes tell Telemachus in Book 1 that he must do?
(a) All answers are correct.
(b) Go on a quest.
(c) Make Penelope decide about marriage.
(d) Thrust the suitors from the house.

4. While Telemachus is in Lycaedaemon, what plan do the suitors devise to punish Telemachus for leaving?
(a) To kill him on the open sea.
(b) To take Penelope away.
(c) To steal all his goods.
(d) To discredit him in Ithaca.

5. What announcement does Telemachus make to the suitors of his hall in Book 1?
(a) He's been visited by the goddess Athena, and they should change their ways.
(b) He's going to go on a trip.
(c) His father is alive.
(d) He's going to call a meeting of the assembly and formally ask the suitors to leave.

Short Answer Questions

1. Penelope learns about the suitors' plan for Telemachus from a page, but what does she learn from her sister's phantom?

2. Telemachus is overrun with ________, who sponge off of him and his estate, making no amends.

3. In order to tell Telemachus of Odysseus' fate, where does Menelaus' tale begin?

4. How many times has the meeting of the assembly occurred since Odysseus left?

5. How does Penelope keep from marrying one of the suitors?

(see the answer key)

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