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The questions below refer to the selection "from the Odyssey, Part One: The Wanderings." Calypso allows Odysseus to leave her island because -

a. she understands his grief and cannot bear to see him suffer

b. Hermes has told her that Zeus has ordered it

c. Hermes thinks that Odysseus has spent enough time in exile

d. Penelope is growing old and needs his assistance

Odysseus tells Calypso that he wishes to return to Penelope because -

Choose one answer. a. he no longer finds Calypso attractive

b. he is a sailor and sailors love the sea

c. he longs to see his home again

d. Penelope is the only woman who interests him

Odysseus's encounter with the Cicones after the Greeks leave Troy indicates that the Greeks -

Choose one answer. a. seem to be victims everywhere they go

b. obey every command Odysseus gives them

c. love to drink and make merry

d. are violent warriors and plunderers

After Odysseus's men eat the lotus plant, they -

Choose one answer. a. fall ill and die

b. are captured by the Lotus Eaters

c. are thrown into the sea

d. forget their homeland

Why does Odysseus blind Polyphemus rather than kill him?

Choose one answer. a. Teiresias and Circe have advised him to do so.

b. Odysseus takes pity on the Cyclops.

c. Only Polyphemus can move the boulder blocking the cave's entrance.

d. Odysseus knows that killing Polyphemus will anger Poseidon.

From what we discover about Circe, we can assume that her tame wolves and mountains lions are -

Choose one answer. a. constantly drugged into a stupor

b. men transformed into animals

c. trained to attack on command

d. gods in animal disguise

What does the shade of Teiresias require in order to provide Odysseus with a prophecy?

Choose one answer. a. Light

b. Payment

c. A taste of blood

d. Permission

Odysseus saves his crew from the Sirens' song by -

Choose one answer. a. plugging his men's ears with beeswax

b. tying his men to their rowing stations

c. sailing away from the coast

d. shouting to distract the Sirens

Odysseus does not warn his crew about Scylla because he thinks they would -

Choose one answer. a. not believe what he says

b. insist on sailing closer to Charybdis

c. panic and endanger the entire ship

d. accuse him of being a coward

What prophecy of Teiresias and Circe does Odysseus withhold from his men?

Choose one answer. a. Odysseus and his crew will return triumphant to Ithaca.

b. The sailors' adventure will last another ten years.

c. Only Odysseus will survive and return home.

d. Poseidon will capsize their ship near Charybdis.

Marks: 2 Which of the following formulas is not used by Homer to describe Odysseus?

Choose one answer. a. "master of landways and seaways"

b. "raider of cities"

c. "son of Laertes and the gods of old"

d. "blue girdler of the islands"

In epic poetry, the poet often begins by asking for assistance in telling the story. This convention is known as the -

Choose one answer. a. Homeric simile

b. quest structure

c. exposition

d. invocation

One of the things that the Greeks regarded as most offensive to the gods was to

Choose one answer. a. enslave women

b. mistreat guests

c. sack and burn cities

d. wear sandals indoors

To Homer and his listeners, the stories that we call myths primarily expressed -

Choose one answer. a. sound morals that everyone agreed with

b. the fundamental values of Greek society

c. the ways that gods disguised themselves on earth

d. how men are influenced by the spiritual realm

The questions below refer to the selection "from the Odyssey, Part Two: Coming Home." When Odysseus returns home, Athena advises him to disguise himself as a -

Choose one answer. a. swineherd

b. soothsayer

c. beggar

d. soldier

Which of the following events is an example of dramatic irony?

Choose one answer. a. Athena provides Odysseus with new clothes and a younger appearance.

b. Telemachus returns to Ithaca unharmed.

c. Eumaeus is sent to tell Penelope about Telemachus's safe return.

d. Telemachus does not recognize that the stranger is his father.

When Odysseus reveals himself to Telemachus, his son -

Choose one answer. a. confuses him with the swineherd

b. thinks only a god could make such a transformation

c. accuses him of abandoning his mother

d. asks for proof that Odysseus is his father

The old hound Argos knows that Odysseus has returned because the dog -

Choose one answer. a. recognizes Odysseus's face

b. picks up the scent of his mast