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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In Book 5, who orders Odysseus' release from Calypso?
(a) Athene.
(b) Hermes.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Poseidon.

2. What is happening in Lacedaemon when Telemachus arrives?
(a) Menelaus is holding a funeral rite for his brother.
(b) Menelaus and his household are holding a feast in honor of the gods.
(c) Menelaus is celebrating the marriage of his daughter.
(d) Menelaus is celebrating a double marriage.

3. When captured by Menelaus, who had been stuck for 20 days, what did this being reveal to him to get his freedom?
(a) Menelaus is told how to get Helen back.
(b) Menelaus is told how to get home and acquire more treasure.
(c) Menelaus is told how to get home, as well as the fate of three of his friends.
(d) Menelaus is told how to get vengeance for his brother.

4. How did Odysseus appear after his bath in Book 6?
(a) Athena made him look natural.
(b) Athena made him look like a hero.
(c) Athena made him look younger.
(d) Athena made him look taller and stouter.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In addition to offering advice, what else does Mentes from Taphos give to Telemachus?

2. What time of day do Odysseus and the Phaecians set sail in Book 13?

3. How did Odysseus anger the god(dess) who seeks to punish him in Book 1?

4. How does Odysseus' goatherd, Melanthius, treat Odysseus the beggar and Eumaeus?

5. Who reads the sign given while Telemachus calls upon Zeus in Book 2?

(see the answer key)

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