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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 7.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who does Hector pray to for his son to be a great ruler?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Ares.
(c) Athena.
(d) Apollo.

3. Why do the men gather down by their vessels at the end of Book 2?
(a) To prove their loyalty.
(b) To stir up the war god.
(c) To get ready to fight.
(d) To go home.

4. Who prophesies that the Greeks will win the war against the Trojans in ten years?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Kalchas.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Odysseus.

5. Who is urging Paris to return to the battlefield?
(a) Hector.
(b) Helen and Hector.
(c) Helen.
(d) His mother.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where did Hector's wife go to see if she can find him?

2. Who answers Paris' challenge to the Greeks on the battlefield?

3. Who kills Adrestos?

4. Who recommends that both sides take a break from the war to bury their dead?

5. After Zeus and Hera come to an agreement on Mount Olympus, who is sent to stir the men up to battle?

(see the answer key)

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