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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many youths are chosen for the black ship that Alcinous will provide Odysseus?
(a) 22.
(b) 50.
(c) 42.
(d) 52.

2. What does Menelaus give to Telemachus when Telemachus politely refuses his other gifts?
(a) A goodly cup.
(b) Soldiers with which to vanquish the suitors.
(c) A polished car.
(d) A well-wrought silver bowl.

3. What skill are Phaecian men skilled beyond others?
(a) Fighting.
(b) Farming.
(c) Sailing.
(d) Speaking.

4. Where did Nestor last see Odysseus?
(a) Psyria.
(b) Tendos.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Troy.

5. Why doesn't the other Cyclops help Polyphemus in Book 9?
(a) Polyphemus said "No man is murdering me."
(b) He always screams, so they didn't believe him.
(c) He never helps anyone else.
(d) They couldn't get past the boulder guarding the opening of his cave.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Calypso find Odysseus to tell him the news of his ordered release in Book 5?

2. As a result of the meeting of the assembly in Book 2, what do the suitors decide to do?

3. Which god(dess) visits Telemachus at the beginning of the poem?

4. How many men does Odysseus lose to the Cyclops?

5. When captured by Menelaus, who had been stuck for 20 days, what did this being reveal to him to get his freedom?

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