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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Section 12, Calypso.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What special ability does Calypso have?
(a) Calypso can communicate telepathically.
(b) Calypso can control the tides.
(c) Calypso can control peoples' minds.
(d) Calypso can see the past and future.

2. What is Ulysses told that Penelope weaves every day?
(a) A rug.
(b) A shroud.
(c) A cloak.
(d) A handkerchief.

3. What are the Hellenes instructed not to eat by Teiresias?
(a) Fish from Poseidon's ocean.
(b) Hyperion's golden cattle.
(c) Fruit offered by maidens.
(d) Wild pigs.

4. What demand is being made on Penelope in Ithaca?
(a) To give up her fortune.
(b) To leave her castle.
(c) To choose a husband.
(d) To choose a wife for her son.

5. Where does Ulysses believe he is when he awakes in Section 12?
(a) Thrinasia.
(b) Troy.
(c) In the Elysian Fields.
(d) Ithaca.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Polyphemus' father?

2. Who is Hyperion?

3. What does Elpenor instruct Ulysses to avoid so that he does not lose his entire crew?

4. What is the island that Ulysses lands his ship on in Section 4 like?

5. Who is sent to Ogygia to tell Calypso to release Ulysses?

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