Odyssey Book 3-4 Quiz

Where does Nestor send Telemachus to seek further news of his father?

• Dido's island

• Crete

• Sparta

• Olympus

How does Nestor feel about Athene's presence in his palace?

• Honoured

• Terrified

• Overjoyed

• Apprehensive

How does Nestor explain the absence of Menelaus?

• He had been sent to Olympus

• He succumbed to a fever

• He is being held as a captive

• He had been shipwrecked on the way home

What does Athene transfor into which displays here divinity to the assembly?

• Dove

• Eagle

• Vulture

• Lioness

What is Nestor best known as?

• Strength

• Bravery

• Wisdom

• Cunning

What special event is going on when Telemachus arrives in Sparta?

• A royal funeral

• A double wedding

• Celebration of a royal birth

• A triathlon

What does Proteus (the old man of the sea) tell Menelaus he must do to return home

• Resist the Sirens

• Defeat the cyclops

• build additional pylons

• Make additional sacrifices

How do Menelaus and his troops disguise themselves to trap Proteus?

• As soldiers

• As seals

• As rocks

• As horses

What does Menelaus try to convince Telemachus to do?

• take him along with him

• Stay in Sparta

• Make a sacrifice to the gods

• find his father at any cost

In Sparta who immediately recognises Telemachus?

• Megapenthes

• Neoptolemus

• Menelaus

• Helen