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

2. In Section 2, who warns the Hellenes that an attack in coming?
(a) The sentries.
(b) A villager.
(c) Eurylochus.
(d) Athene.

3. What is attracted to the treasures unloaded from the ships in the Greek's retreat?
(a) Mermaids.
(b) Sharks.
(c) Naiads.
(d) Pirates.

4. With how many ships does Ulysses set sail?
(a) Three.
(b) One.
(c) Five.
(d) Four.

5. Who devises a plan to hide soldiers within a giant wooden horse?
(a) Telemachus.
(b) Achilles.
(c) Ulysses.
(d) Menelaus.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal do the Greeks sacrifice to the Gods?

2. What does the flower Persephone makes cause people to do?

3. Into what does Circe's spell turn Ulysses' men?

4. What does Ulysses use to attack the giants?

5. What supply do the men run out of aboard Ulysses' ship in Section 4?

Short Essay Questions

1. Eris is the Lady of Discord. Explain how she lives up to her title at the wedding of Peleus and Thetis.

2. What spell does Circe cast on men? Why?

3. What references does Section 2 make to sacrifices to the Gods?

4. How does Aeolus recognize Ulysses?

5. How does Aphrodite plot to win the title of the fairest Goddess?

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

7. What does Circe say Ulysses will have to do if he decided to leave her island?

8. Why do the ships led by Ulysses quickly begin to run low on food?

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

10. What is attracted to the baubles thrown from Ulysses' ships in their retreat from the island? Who is angered by this?

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