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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 18.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Paris promise to Hector when Hector finds him after the Trojans retreat to the city?
(a) To direct the fighting from the walls.
(b) To return to the fighting.
(c) To keep Hector's son safe.
(d) To prevent Hector's son from dying.

2. What does Hector do when the Trojans are forced to retreat?
(a) Goes into the city and asks the elders and women to sacrifice to the gods.
(b) Goes into the city and asks the elders and women to pray to the gods.
(c) Goes into the city and gives a speech to the elders and women.
(d) Goes into the city and asks the elders and women to evacuate.

3. Why does Andromache not want Hector to go back to the battle?
(a) She does not want to be a widow and her son an orphan.
(b) She does not want to live without him.
(c) She wants him to take over for Paris.
(d) She does not want him to kill any more Greeks.

4. What does Poulydamas suggest to Hector?
(a) That the men build a bridge to cross the ditch.
(b) That the men climb on their horses' backs to cross the ditch.
(c) That the men get off their horses to cross the ditch.
(d) That the men don't cross the ditch.

5. What is the eagle carrying when it appears as a sign as the Trojans are trying to cross the ditch on foot?
(a) A rabbit.
(b) A red snake.
(c) A deer.
(d) A lamb.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Achilles' mother ask him to wait for?

2. What prevents Diomedes from killing Glaukos?

3. When do the Trojans finally break through the wall?

4. Who is urging Paris to return to the battlefield?

5. How do Diomedes and Glaukos seal their friendship?

(see the answer key)

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