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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 Hera do to Poseidon?
(a) Asks him to keep interfering.
(b) Tells him she is going to tell Zeus of his disobedience.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Puts him into a deep sleep.

2. 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?
(a) Hector.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Ajax.
(d) Paris.

3. Who suggests that Odysseus, Diomedes, and Agamemnon go to the battlefield to be seen and not fight?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Nestor .
(c) Odysseus.
(d) Diomedes.

4. 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 wants him to take over for Paris.
(c) She does not want him to kill any more Greeks.
(d) She does not want to live without him.

5. Which Greek man's death is foretold by Zeus to Hera?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Menelaus.
(c) Odysseus.
(d) Patroclus

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Helen weaving when she is visited by a divine messenger?

2. What does Paris promise to Hector when Hector finds him after the Trojans retreat to the city?

3. How does Helen entertain King Priam?

4. What about Helen angers Aphrodite in Book 3?

5. Which god does Hera ask to help the Greeks when she sees the Greeks are overwhelmed?

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