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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) Take it to Mount Olympus.
(b) Throw it back into the water.
(c) Send it back to her with a gull.
(d) Ulysses is told not to return it.

2. What is Ulysses tricked into believing his men are eating in Section 11?
(a) Cow.
(b) Stag.
(c) Rabbit.
(d) Wild pig.

3. What strange noise does Ulysses hear in Section 9?
(a) Screeching.
(b) Rumbling.
(c) Whistling.
(d) Moaning.

4. How long does Ulysses drift at sea in Section 11?
(a) Four months.
(b) Two months.
(c) Ten days.
(d) Thirty days.

5. How is Ulysses' ship driven through the strait of the Sirens?
(a) By a current.
(b) By oar.
(c) By the wind.
(d) By Poseidon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why do Nausicaa's parents lose patience with her?

2. What form does the monster Charybdis take?

3. What does Ulysses send to Ithaca in Section 12 to bring him a report about his wife and son?

4. Who is Nausicaa's father?

5. Who turned Scylla into a monster?

Short Essay Questions

1. Who is Ino? What is her motivation for helping Ulysses?

2. How do the floating rocks lead Ulysses to fulfill Teiresias' prophesy?

3. Why does Ulysses decide his crew should leave Thrinacia after their hunt is unsuccessful?

4. What does Ulysses learn from a crow of his wife, Penelope, back in Ithaca?

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

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

7. How does Calypso know that Ulysses is coming in Section 12?

8. What effect does the physical appearance of the Sirens have on Ulysses' men?

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

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

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