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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is Ulysses warned he would find his son upon his return home?
(a) Being held captive.
(b) Dead.
(c) Suffering illness.
(d) Lost at sea.

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

3. Who exiled the Cyclops monsters from Olympus to live on the island?
(a) Poseidon.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Ares.
(d) Demeter.

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

5. In Section 8, what does the sea slope and narrow to become?
(a) Tartarus.
(b) The strait of the Sirens.
(c) The River Styx.
(d) A passage to Ithaca.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Ulysses awake upon in Section 12?

2. What does Polyphemus pray will happen to Ulysses?

3. What does Calypso turn the men into who she grows bored with?

4. What is Ulysses told that Penelope weaves every day?

5. Who is Ulysses' mother?

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