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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 Circe experience during pregnancy?
(a) Ravenous hunger.
(b) Extreme sickness.
(c) Visions.
(d) Long bouts of deep sleep.

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

3. Where is Odysseus from?
(a) Rome.
(b) Egypt.
(c) Ithaca.
(d) Syracuse.

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

5. What does Penelope ask Circe for so she can mourn for her husband?
(a) A ship of pigs to send to Ithaca.
(b) A black cloak.
(c) A tin of spiders.
(d) A special mourning song.

Short Answer Questions

1. How long does Circe say it will take her to undo the protective spell on Aiaia so Athena can visit?

2. What does Circe once tell Telemachus about family?

3. How does Odysseus die?

4. Who gives Odysseus the gift of the contrary winds to speed his way on the ship?

5. Which animal does Telegonus take on Athena's ship with him?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Odysseus describe his wife Penelope to Circe?

2. What kind of a disposition does Circe's baby, Telegonus, have as an infant?

3. What does Penelope ask Circe for to help her mourn for her husband?

4. What happens to Circe during her pregnancy in Chapter 18?

5. What is Circe's most significant act of transformation, which she preforms on herself in Chapter 27, meant to achieve?

6. In Chapter 22, what does Telemachus tell Circe he and his mother, Penelope, had to endure while Odysseus was away at the wars?

7. What happens to Telegonus on Ithaca?

8. Why does Circe fear Penelope and Telemachus at first in Chapter 21?

9. What was Telemachus trying to do when he saw that Telegonus and his father Odysseus were in a tense conversation on the shores of Ithaca?

10. What does Circe use as leverage against Helios when she summons him to ask him to lift her exile in Chapter 25?

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