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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What skill are Phaecian men skilled beyond others?
(a) Speaking.
(b) Sailing.
(c) Farming.
(d) Fighting.

2. Who went disguised as a page in Book 8 throughout the town, encouraging people to hear about the stranger?
(a) Alcinous.
(b) Pontonous.
(c) Odysseus.
(d) Athene.

3. What does Circe turn Odysseus' crew into in Book 10?
(a) Pigs.
(b) Deer.
(c) Wolves.
(d) Lions.

4. According to Nestor, who wanted the Achaeans to suffer on the way home from Troy?
(a) Kronos.
(b) Athene.
(c) Poseidon.
(d) Zeus.

5. Why does Telemachus take Theoclymenus on his ship home?
(a) Theoclymenus is fleeing from punishment.
(b) Athena tells him to take the murderer.
(c) Telemachus realizes he needs all the allies he can get in Ithaca.
(d) Theoclymenus pays him.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Telemachus seek from the assembly above all?

2. According to Halitherses in Book 2, how long will Odysseus be gone before he returns to his friends and family?

3. What makes Irus nervous about his fight with Odysseus the beggar?

4. Why does Athena speak to Nausicaa in her dreams?

5. In Book 3, Nestor pledges to sacrifice a gold-tipped _______________ in Athene's honor.

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