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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After the first suitor fails to string the bow, what does he recommend?
(a) They should postpone the contest.
(b) Each man who fails should try for another woman.
(c) They should warm up the bow by the fire.
(d) They should pray to Apollo.

2. Why is Telemachus skeptical that he and Odysseus can handle the suitors without help?
(a) Telemachus is untried in battle.
(b) Odysseus isn't as young as he used to be.
(c) Odysseus has suffered for many years and it's taken a toll on his body.
(d) There are more than 100 suitors haunting their halls.

3. When Eurymachus' negotiations fail, what plan do the suitors make to escape from Odysseus' palace alive?
(a) Someone should try the back door and get into town.
(b) Everyone wants to be the leader, so they spend their time squabbling.
(c) They form a phalanx trying to protect themselves.
(d) They want to attack all together then raise the alarm.

4. What does Odysseus do during the voyage home in Book 13?
(a) Holds the rudder.
(b) Sleeps.
(c) Takes to oar.
(d) Stands lookout.

5. Among the suitors, who tried to use the bow first?
(a) Antinous.
(b) Leiodes.
(c) Eurymachus.
(d) Peisander.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Odysseus' goatherd, Melanthius, treat Odysseus the beggar and Eumaeus?

2. How does Eurycleia recognize Odysseus the beggar as Odysseus in Book 19?

3. Who lets the first spear fly when the mourners come to attack in Book 24?

4. Who betrayed Penelope's loom of deceit?

5. In Book 23, now that the fight with the suitors is over, what does Odysseus tell Telemachus to do?

(see the answer keys)

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