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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Ulysses do to stop the attacking villagers from following his men?
(a) Ulysses leads the villagers in another direction.
(b) Ulysses sets dried grass on fire.
(c) Ulysses causes a rockslide.
(d) Ulysses shoots their horses.

2. How many days does Ulysses guard the bag of winds without sleeping?
(a) Ten.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Five.
(d) Nine.

3. What happens to the men Ulysses sends to scout out the island in Section 6?
(a) They get lost for many hours.
(b) They find food.
(c) They do not return.
(d) They are taken prisoner.

4. What do the sailors aboard Ulysses' ship begin to suspect about the bag of winds?
(a) That it is empty.
(b) That it contains treasure.
(c) That it is bad luck.
(d) That it has cast a spell on Ulysses.

5. Whom does Aeolus dislike?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Ulysses.
(c) Polyphemus.
(d) Poseidon.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Ulysses handicap Polyphemus?

2. What does Aeolus send to set Ulysses' ships off course?

3. What is referred to as "a little death" by Hypnos?

4. What does the god Ulysses meets give him in order to resist Circe's spell?

5. In Section 6, what does Ulysses send one of his men to climb in order to scout out the island?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who are the Ciconians?

2. How do the Hellenes escape Polyphemus' cave?

3. What role does greed play in ruining Ulysses' return to Ithaca?

4. Who is Morpheus? Who are his family members?

5. Why does Ulysses resist attacking the island village that his men spot from their ships?

6. Describe the monsters that inhabit the mountainous island where Ulysses' ship docks.

7. What do Eurylochus and his men discover at the castle?

8. Describe the island Ulysses lands on in Section 6.

9. What plan does Ulysses devise that leads to the Greeks' victory over Troy?

10. Whom does Ulysses send to scout the Island of the Racing Sun? What happens to them?

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