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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who betrayed Penelope's loom of deceit?
(a) She was caught by the suitors after five years.
(b) It took them two years, but they figured it out themselves.
(c) Her slave maids told the suitors after three years.
(d) She was caught by the suitors in the fourth year.

2. Why does Odysseus find sleep difficult in his home in Book 20?
(a) With the old body that Athene has given, he has many aches and pains.
(b) He picked an uncomfortable spot to keep up his rouse.
(c) He wishes to be in his marriage bed.
(d) He's wondering how he is going to slay the suitors alone.

3. In Book 24, who tells the assembly that an immortal aided Odysseus?
(a) Theoclymenus.
(b) Mentor.
(c) Halitherses.
(d) Medon.

4. Where did Menelaus get the gift he gave to Telemachus?
(a) From his wife as a wedding present.
(b) From Troy as a spoil of war.
(c) From a king who sheltered him.
(d) From an immortal when he was close to death.

5. When Eurymachus' negotiations fail, what plan do the suitors make to escape from Odysseus' palace alive?
(a) They want to attack all together then raise the alarm.
(b) Someone should try the back door and get into town.
(c) They form a phalanx trying to protect themselves.
(d) Everyone wants to be the leader, so they spend their time squabbling.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the name Odysseus the beggar gives as his own in Book 19?

2. Among the suitors, who tried to use the bow first?

3. Which suitor scorns Odysseus the beggar at the second feast which he attends, in Book 20?

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

5. In Book 23, now that the fight with the suitors is over, what does Odysseus tell Telemachus to do?

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