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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 do the Cyclops monsters like to eat?
(a) Live goats.
(b) Fellow cyclopses.
(c) Human flesh.
(d) Fish.

2. What is referred to as "a little death" by Hypnos?
(a) A coma.
(b) Injury.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Illness.

3. What does Ulysses use to attack the giants?
(a) Rocks.
(b) Arrows.
(c) His sword.
(d) Fire.

4. In Section 2, who convinces Ulysses that the village is a gift from God?
(a) Eurylochus.
(b) Perimedas.
(c) Elpenor.
(d) Telemachus.

5. What do Ulysses' ships carry in their cargo holds instead of food?
(a) Passengers.
(b) Treasures from Troy.
(c) Silks.
(d) Barrels of wine.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aeolus ask Ulysses for when he greets him on the island?

2. What does the god Ulysses meets give him in order to resist Circe's spell?

3. What do Ulysses' men want to do when they spot a small village on an island in Section 2?

4. What animals are outside the island's castle?

5. Where do the villagers gather to organize an attack on the Hellenes?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the Hellenes escape Polyphemus' cave?

2. What references does Section 2 make to sacrifices to the Gods?

3. Whom does Ulysses send to scout the Island of the Racing Sun? What happens to them?

4. What does Ulysses dream about while docked in Libya?

5. What mistake does Ulysses make once he and his men are safely on their ship having escaped Polyphemus?

6. Describe the monsters that inhabit the mountainous island where Ulysses' ship docks.

7. What do Eurylochus and his men discover at the castle?

8. Which god does Ulysses meet on his way to Circe's castle? What does this god offer Ulysses?

9. Describe the island Ulysses lands on in Section 6.

10. What favor does Aeolus grant Ulysses?

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