Read the following poem about the epic hero Odysseus (Ulysses is his Roman name) and answer the questions that follow.


1. The attitude Ulysses shows toward yet another voyage is best described as:

a. anxious restlessness
b. reckless anticipation
c. fearful hesitation
d. realistic eagerness
e. Both A and B.


2. Ulysses’ negative attitude toward his present life reflected in lines 1-5 is expressed in all of the following
EXCEPT:

a. “idle king”
b. “barren crags”
c. “aged wife���
d. “mete and dole”


3. The use of metaphor to describe Ulysses’ life is best depicted by:

a. “How dull it is to pause, to make an end, / To rust unburnished, not to shine in use”
b. “Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough / Gleams that untraveled world”
c. “I am become a name”
d. “For always roaming with a hungry heart / Much have I seen and known”


4. Ulysses’ resentment of his time spent in Ithaca is best reflected by which of the following quotes?

a. “I have enjoyed / Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those / That love me, and alone”
b. “Vile it were / For some three suns to store and hoard myself, / And this gray spirit yearning in desire / To follow knowledge like a sinking star, / Beyond the utmost bound of human thought”
c. “This is my son, mine own Telemachus, / To whom I leave the scepter and the isle- / Well-loved of me”
d. “Old age had yet his honor and his toil”


5. The poem “Ulysses” has all of the following in common with the poem Beowulf EXCEPT:

a. Both depict a hero who neglects the safety of his people.
b. Both depict the successes of a hero and his constant hunger for more glory.
c. Both depict the stages of the epic journey.
d. Both depict the fall of a hero.