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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 Athene do when Ulysses departs from Phaeacia?
(a) Athene warns Poseidon not to interfere.
(b) Athene travels with him disguised as a servant.
(c) Athene drugs Poseidon.
(d) Athene makes the winds blow so that the trip is quickened.

2. Who does Hyperion request vengeance from?
(a) Hera.
(b) Poseidon.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Athene.

3. What law does Queen Arete warn her husband against breaking by sacrificing Ulysses?
(a) The law of hospitality.
(b) The law of kindness.
(c) The law of friendship.
(d) The law of courtesy.

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

5. What are the bodies of the Sirens like?
(a) Birds.
(b) Lizards.
(c) Fish.
(d) Humans.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did Charybdis anger Zeus?

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

3. What is special about Ino's veil?

4. What does Calypso claim to have turned Ulysses into when she saw him fall from his raft?

5. What provision do Ulysses' men find in abundance on Thrinacia?

Short Essay Questions

1. In Section 9, why does Ulysses order his men to sail straight to Ithaca?

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

3. How does Princess Nausicaa get Ulysses to reveal his identity?

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

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

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

7. Why do several of his men believe Ulysses killed Elpenor intentionally?

8. What does the ghost of Elpenor warn Ulysses about?

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

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

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