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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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.

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

3. With which hero did Odysseus first speak in Hades?
(a) Ajax.
(b) Hercules.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Achilles.

4. Who reads the sign given while Telemachus calls upon Zeus in Book 2?
(a) Eurymachus.
(b) Mentor.
(c) Aegyptius.
(d) Halitherses.

5. In Book 14, where does a disguised Odysseus tell Eumaeus he is from when asked?
(a) Crete.
(b) Ithaca.
(c) Troy.
(d) Pylos.

Short Answer Questions

1. As Odysseus and his men push away from the Cyclops island, what does Odysseus do?

2. Where did Nestor last see Odysseus?

3. Why does Odysseus have to go to Hades in Book 10?

4. According to Halitherses in Book 2, how long will Odysseus be gone before he returns to his friends and family?

5. What does the first spirit to visit Odysseus in Hades ask him to do?

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