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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 12, Calypso.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What supply do the men run out of aboard Ulysses' ship in Section 4?
(a) Food.
(b) Medicine.
(c) Alcohol.
(d) Water.

2. What do the Cyclops monsters like to eat?
(a) Fish.
(b) Live goats.
(c) Fellow cyclopses.
(d) Human flesh.

3. What demand is being made on Penelope in Ithaca?
(a) To give up her fortune.
(b) To choose a wife for her son.
(c) To choose a husband.
(d) To leave her castle.

4. Which god tells Zeus that Poseidon's treatment of Ulysses is unjust?
(a) Aphrodite.
(b) Athene.
(c) Artemis.
(d) Apollo.

5. Where does Ulysses believe he is when he awakes in Section 12?
(a) Troy.
(b) Ithaca.
(c) Thrinasia.
(d) In the Elysian Fields.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Teiresias?

2. What animals are sacrificed so that Ulysses may talk to the dead?

3. What does Polyphemus pray will happen to Ulysses?

4. What does Elpenor instruct Ulysses to avoid so that he does not lose his entire crew?

5. How is Ulysses warned he would find his son upon his return home?

(see the answer key)

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