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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. How is Ulysses instructed to return Ino's veil to her?
(a) Throw it back into the water.
(b) Send it back to her with a gull.
(c) Take it to Mount Olympus.
(d) Ulysses is told not to return it.

2. What does Calypso claim to have turned Ulysses into when she saw him fall from his raft?
(a) A fish.
(b) A dragonfly.
(c) A bird.
(d) An otter.

3. How many of Ulysses' men are taken by Scylla?
(a) Six.
(b) Ten.
(c) Seventeen.
(d) Four.

4. Who is Ino?
(a) A naiad.
(b) A goddess.
(c) A sorceress.
(d) A mermaid.

5. What is Ulysses told that Penelope weaves every day?
(a) A handkerchief.
(b) A rug.
(c) A shroud.
(d) A cloak.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Ulysses' ship driven through the strait of the Sirens?

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

3. What insect does the monster Scylla resemble?

4. What demand is being made on Penelope in Ithaca?

5. What do Nausicaa and the maidens play with at the river?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ulysses trap food while he is adrift on the raft in Section 11?

2. How does Calypso bring Ulysses to her island?

3. What is said to have happened to Nausicaa after Ulysses' departure?

4. How does Athene help Ulysses when he is on Calypso's island?

5. How does Eurylochus convince the crew to eat the sun-cattle?

6. What fate befalls Ulysses' ship when he sets sail from Thrinacia?

7. What tool does Ino lend Ulysses to help him swim?

8. What effect does the sky have on Ulysses in Section 9?

9. What obstacle does Ulysses' ship encounter on its journey toward Ithaca in Section 9?

10. What warnings do the ghosts of Achilles and Ajax offer Ulysses?

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