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

2. What frightens Hector's son?
(a) His sword.
(b) The plume on his helmet.
(c) The sounds of battle.
(d) The noise of his armor.

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

4. Who demands that the Trojans concede victory to the Greeks and return Helen?
(a) Priam.
(b) Menelaus
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Achilles.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who kills Adrestos?

2. Why does Hector chastise Paris when he finds Paris with the troops and not preparing to meet his challenger from the Greek army?

3. Which Greek man's death is foretold by Zeus to Hera?

4. After Zeus sends the goddess of Hate down to the Greeks, what does he send Iris to tell Hector?

5. How does Helen entertain King Priam?

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