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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 color are the skies in Section 9?
(a) Red.
(b) Grey.
(c) Blue.
(d) Black.

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

3. How is Ulysses instructed to return Ino's veil to her?
(a) Take it to Mount Olympus.
(b) Send it back to her with a gull.
(c) Ulysses is told not to return it.
(d) Throw it back into the water.

4. Where does Ulysses swim to in Section 13?
(a) Thrinacia.
(b) Phaeacia.
(c) Ithaca.
(d) Troy.

5. What strange noise does Ulysses hear in Section 9?
(a) Screeching.
(b) Rumbling.
(c) Whistling.
(d) Moaning.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do Ulysses' men block their ears with to sail thought the strait of the Sirens?

2. What law does Queen Arete warn her husband against breaking by sacrificing Ulysses?

3. How many of Ulysses' men are taken by Scylla?

4. What is Thrinacia also known as?

5. How many days does Ulysses swim for in Section 13?

Short Essay Questions

1. What obstacle does Ulysses' ship encounter on its journey toward Ithaca in Section 9?

2. Describe Nausicaa.

3. How does Princess Nausicaa get Ulysses to reveal his identity?

4. How does Ulysses trap food while he is adrift on the raft in Section 11?

5. What is said to have happened to Nausicaa after Ulysses' departure?

6. What warnings do the ghosts of Achilles and Ajax offer Ulysses?

7. How does Eurylochus convince the crew to eat the sun-cattle?

8. How does Calypso know that Ulysses is coming in Section 12?

9. Why does Ulysses decide his crew should leave Thrinacia after their hunt is unsuccessful?

10. What effect does the sky have on Ulysses in Section 9?

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