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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Telemachus seek from the assembly above all?
(a) Help.
(b) Justice.
(c) Advice.
(d) Supplies.

2. As a result of the meeting of the assembly in Book 2, what do the suitors decide to do?
(a) Continue behaving as they have been.
(b) To court other women, too.
(c) It's time to go home.
(d) It's time to give something back to Telemachus and his estate.

3. What does Nestor tell Telemachus about his relationship with Odysseus?
(a) They never spoke those nine years at war.
(b) They never fought side by side during the war.
(c) They never differed at council during the war.
(d) They never agreed at council during the war.

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

5. Athene instructs Nestor to help Telemachus on the next leg of his journey. What does he supply?
(a) Nestor gives Telemachus treasure, a map and one of his sons.
(b) Nestor gives Telemachus horses and one of his sons.
(c) Nestor gives Telemachus supplies and a guide.
(d) Nestor gives Telemachus another ship and one of his sons.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Mentes tell Telemachus in Book 1 that he must do?

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

3. What is Nestor doing when Telemachus arrives in Pylos?

4. What announcement does Telemachus make to the suitors of his hall in Book 1?

5. In Book 4, Helen and Menelaus tell tales of Odysseus' exploits in Troy. What story does Helen tell?

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