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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Floating with the aid of Ino and safe from Poseidon in Book 5, how does Odysseus make it to dry land when he first sees it?
(a) He swims until he finds a boat.
(b) He swims until he finds a beach.
(c) He swims until he finds a river.
(d) He swims until he finds a harbor.

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

3. According to Book 4, who did Menelaus capture?
(a) Proteus.
(b) Eidothea.
(c) Poseidon.
(d) Athena.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Odysseus appear after his bath in Book 6?

2. Who tells Telemachus that it's time for him to behave like a man, not a child?

3. 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?

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

5. Where does Telemachus stay when Nestor's feast is over?

(see the answer key)

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