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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What important task does Telemachus offer to do for Circe in Chapter 23?
(a) Make dinner.
(b) Mend the sty.
(c) Build an enchanted stone wall.
(d) Fix Telegonus's boat.

2. What is one ingredient Circe uses in her potion to protect Telegonus?
(a) Blood from her pigs.
(b) Blood from Hades's pit.
(c) Sun rays from her father.
(d) Flowers from Crete.

3. What happens to Odysseus's men before they can return to Ithaca from Aiaia?
(a) They are re-enlisted in the wars.
(b) They are snatched by the mermaids.
(c) They are killed by the Cyclops.
(d) They are destroyed by Helios for killing some of his cows.

4. Where must Odysseus pass by on his way back to Ithaca?
(a) Rome.
(b) Crete.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Thrinakia.

5. What is the last thing Circe says to Helios before he leaves Aiaia?
(a) To give her greetings to her mother (sarcastically).
(b) That she would cast a nasty spell on him.
(c) To never return.
(d) That she always hated him.

6. What does Helios say about Circe in relation to the rest of his children?
(a) That she was always the prettiest.
(b) That she was always his favorite.
(c) That she has always been the worst of his children.
(d) That she should be queen someday even though she is dishonorable.

7. What is Circe's hope for her transformation as the book ends?
(a) That her transformation will make her mother love her.
(b) That she will be made into a lion.
(c) That her transformation will make her father love her.
(d) That she will be made mortal.

8. Who was it that first suggested Penelope and Telemachus should come back to Aiaia?
(a) Telegonus.
(b) Penelope.
(c) Telemachus.
(d) Odysseus.

9. What kind of a disposition does Circe's infant son have?
(a) Docile.
(b) Extremely sleepy.
(c) Very cranky.
(d) Very active.

10. What does Circe use as leverage to try to make Helios grant her request?
(a) The fact that he had killed her mother and she was the only one who knew.
(b) The fact that he did not have the powers people thought he did.
(c) The fact that she helped Prometheus centuries ago without his knowledge.
(d) The fact that he had committed war crimes Zeus did not know about.

11. Why does Circe suspect the goddess of childbirth does not come when she calls her?
(a) The gods are angry for what she did with Prometheus.
(b) The gods want her to suffer much pain.
(c) The gods do not want her child to be born.
(d) The gods are jealous.

12. Who is Odysseus's wife?
(a) Scylla.
(b) Pasiphae.
(c) Athena.
(d) Penelope.

13. In Chapter 27, what magic does Circe prepare to do on herself?
(a) She plans to use the magic flowers to transform herself to another form.
(b) She plans to make herself a monster.
(c) She plans to make herself more beautiful.
(d) She plans to give herself a beautiful singing voice.

14. What does Odysseus ask Telemachus to do with the slave girls who had laid with the suitors?
(a) Send them to Crete.
(b) Turn them into goddesses.
(c) Kill them brutally.
(d) Teach them witchcraft.

15. Where does Telegonus want to travel to in Chapter 19?
(a) Ithaca.
(b) Mount Olympus.
(c) Helios's halls.
(d) Persia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who helps Telegonus with his work on his boat?

2. Who is Odysseus compelled by the gods to go visit in Chapter 17?

3. Who does Odysseus mistakenly think Telemachus is?

4. What does Circe do to Telegonus in desperation in Chapter 19 so that she may work and cast her protective spells?

5. What does Circe name her son?

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