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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 the Cyclops in Book 9 show hospitality?
(a) He gives them the stranger's gift.
(b) He offers them food and wine.
(c) He offers them food, wine, and a place to sleep.
(d) He dashes two men's brains out and eats them.

2. How does Athene disguise Odysseus on Ithaca?
(a) She makes him look like Telemachus, since Telemachus in still in Sparta.
(b) She makes him look old and dresses him in smelly rags.
(c) She just changes his eyes and hair.
(d) She makes him change his clothes and wear a mask.

3. In Book 5, who orders Odysseus' release from Calypso?
(a) Poseidon.
(b) Athene.
(c) Hermes.
(d) Zeus.

4. Who throws an ox-hoof at Odysseus the beggar?
(a) Ctesippus.
(b) Antinous.
(c) Eurymachus.
(d) Amphinimous.

5. At his first feast in his own house, who throws a stool at Odysseus the beggar?
(a) Melanthius.
(b) Antinous.
(c) Eurymachus.
(d) Medon.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Eurylochus react when Odysseus tells his crew to follow him to Circe's house?

2. After his battle with Poseidon in Book 5, where does Odysseus find shelter in the land on which he has just arrived?

3. What skill are Phaecian men skilled beyond others?

4. What is unique about Demodocus the bard?

5. What sign is witnessed by the entire assembly when Telemachus calls upon Zeus for justice in Book 2?

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