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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Telemachus take Theoclymenus on his ship home?
(a) Theoclymenus pays him.
(b) Athena tells him to take the murderer.
(c) Telemachus realizes he needs all the allies he can get in Ithaca.
(d) Theoclymenus is fleeing from punishment.

2. What is Penelope's reaction when she sees Odysseus for the first time after the slaughter of the suitors?
(a) She looks at him with little reaction.
(b) She ignores him.
(c) She cries and falls into his arms.
(d) She coldly questions him.

3. Who tries to help the suitors in Book 22 by grabbing the armor and weapons?
(a) Melanthius.
(b) Some slave maids.
(c) Agelaus.
(d) Eurycleia.

4. Which suitor scorns Odysseus the beggar at the second feast which he attends, in Book 20?
(a) Ctesippus.
(b) Antinous.
(c) Amphinimous.
(d) Eurymachus.

5. What makes Irus nervous about his fight with Odysseus the beggar?
(a) The suitors have threatened to drag him out by his feet if he loses.
(b) The old man has muscular thighs.
(c) Athene sends a cold wind to give him a chill.
(d) Irus sees his muscular chest.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Where did Menelaus get the gift he gave to Telemachus?

3. Why is Telemachus skeptical that he and Odysseus can handle the suitors without help?

4. Who betrayed Penelope's loom of deceit?

5. With whom was Eumaeus raised?

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