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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Helen challenge Paris to do?
(a) Fight without the gods' help.
(b) Fight honorably to keep her.
(c) Go back and finish fighting Menelaus.
(d) Go back and fight for her honor.

2. Who kills Adrestos?
(a) Odysseus.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Menelaus.
(d) Adrestos doesn't die.

3. Who answers Paris' challenge to the Greeks on the battlefield?
(a) Hector.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Menelaus.
(d) Priam.

4. Who does Achilles send to get information on the war?
(a) Patroclus.
(b) No one.
(c) Phoenix.
(d) Nestor.

5. Why does Hector chastise Paris when he finds Paris with the troops and not preparing to meet his challenger from the Greek army?
(a) For bringing the Trojans to war and being a coward.
(b) For stealing another man's wife.
(c) For being a coward for not standing up and accepting his challenge.
(d) For bringing the Trojans to the point of war and his selfishness for stealing another man's wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hera do to Poseidon?

2. Who does Helen sit next to when watching Paris taking part in the duel on the battlefield?

3. Why does Hector say he has to fight?

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

5. Poseidon appears to whom in order to inspire him to lead his men onto the battlefield, but stay out of range of arrows so as not to be wounded further?

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