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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Zeus suggest to Agamemnon in a dream in order to trick him?
(a) That the Greeks will rescue Helen in the next battle.
(b) That the Greeks will beat the Trojans in the war.
(c) That the Greeks will gain lots of treaures from Troy.
(d) That the Greeks will be victorious over the Trojans in the next batttle.

3. What about Helen angers Aphrodite in Book 3?
(a) That Helen is unhappy.
(b) That Helen wants Menelaus.
(c) That Helen can resist her.
(d) That Helen doesn't want to go to Paris.

4. After Apollo intervenes, who confronts Achilles first?
(a) Hector.
(b) Nestor.
(c) Aeneas.
(d) Paris.

5. What are the two sides in the war?
(a) The Spartans and the Greeks.
(b) The Creteans and the Trojans.
(c) The Greeks and the Trojans.
(d) The Trojans and the Spartans.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who opposes the speech which encourages the Greeks to fight after Agamemnon tells them to go home?

2. Who does Apollo disguise himself as in order to delay Achilles from fighting Hector?

3. Who prophesies that the Greeks will win the war against the Trojans in ten years?

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

5. What does Xanthos promise Achilles?

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