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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Penelope keep from marrying one of the suitors?
(a) She uses sickness and excuses.
(b) She employs piety and sacrifice.
(c) She practices prophecy and witchcraft.
(d) She uses cunning and craft.

2. In whose grove of poplar trees is Odysseus told to wait before approaching the palace in Book 6?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Aphrodite.
(c) Poseidon.
(d) Athene.

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?
(a) She pours it for the men.
(b) She adds herbs to sweeten it.
(c) She warms it.
(d) She adds a drug.

4. What does the first spirit to visit Odysseus in Hades ask him to do?
(a) Go back to Aeaea and observe his funeral rites.
(b) Make more sacrifices at each place he stops.
(c) Take care of his father, Laertes.
(d) Kill one of his men because the gods detest him.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name Odysseus the beggar gives as his own in Book 19?

2. In Book 19, what does Odysseus the beggar tell Penelope has kept Odysseus away so long?

3. What does Nestor tell Telemachus about his relationship with Odysseus?

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

5. In Chapter 12, with his ship destroyed, Odysseus drifts until he reaches _____________.

(see the answer key)

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