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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 16.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Eumaeus greet Telemachus upon his return in Book 16?
(a) Like a mentor to a prodigy.
(b) Like an employee who loves his boss.
(c) Like a father to a long lost son.
(d) Like a brother.

2. What does Menelaus first reveal regarding Odysseus when Telemachus tells Menelaus who he is and the purpose of his visit?
(a) Odysseus is not worth anyone's tears.
(b) Odysseus' problems are his own.
(c) He would have given Odysseus a city upon his return from Troy.
(d) Telemachus looks nothing like his father.

3. Where does Telemachus stay when Nestor's feast is over?
(a) In Nestor's garden.
(b) Beneath the portico at Nestor's house.
(c) In the woods near Nestor's house.
(d) With his men aboard the ship.

4. How long have the suitors been coming to Odysseus' home?
(a) A couple of years.
(b) Four years.
(c) Six years.
(d) More than three years.

5. Having left Ogygia and survived Poseidon's attack, what is Odysseus' new problem, now that he spots land?
(a) There is no safe harbor.
(b) The sea is deep as it ends abruptly on the steep bluff.
(c) All answers are correct.
(d) The coast is a bluff and jagged reefs.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Nestor, who wanted the Achaeans to suffer on the way home from Troy?

2. Why is Telemachus skeptical that he and Odysseus can handle the suitors without help?

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

4. What gift does Helen give to Telemachus as he is preparing to leave Lacedaemon?

5. Who first notices Odysseus' clothes in Alcinous' house?

(see the answer key)

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