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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Book 22, which suitor is killed first?
(a) Antinous.
(b) Amphinomous.
(c) Peisander.
(d) Eurymachus.

2. How does Telemachus react to his mother's contest in Book 21?
(a) He thinks she's doing the right thing.
(b) He tells her that the suitors are not to touch his father's weapons.
(c) He's going to try the bow too.
(d) He's going to try the bow, for if he can wield it, then she can marry whoever she wishes.

3. In Book 24, who tells the assembly that an immortal aided Odysseus?
(a) Medon.
(b) Halitherses.
(c) Mentor.
(d) Theoclymenus.

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

5. How does Odysseus' goatherd, Melanthius, treat Odysseus the beggar and Eumaeus?
(a) He was happy to see the swineherd and interested in Odysseus.
(b) He is suspicious.
(c) He is rude and unkind.
(d) He ignored them.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Athene disguise Odysseus on Ithaca?

2. Who is the first in the hall to notice Odysseus the beggar?

3. How does Eumaeus greet Telemachus upon his return in Book 16?

4. Why are there so few boars among Odysseus' swine in Book 14?

5. What will the winner of the beggars' fight in Book 18 get from the suitors?

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