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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 6.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who intervenes to prevent the soldiers from deserting Agamemnon?
(a) Athena and Artemis.
(b) Athena and Helen.
(c) Athena and Hera.
(d) Hera and Artemis.

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

3. Who accompanies Chryseis back home?
(a) Odysseus.
(b) Achilles.
(c) Aias.
(d) Talthybios.

4. What is the challenge Paris issues to the Greeks on the battlefield?
(a) For the Greeks to reclaim Helen.
(b) For any Greek warrior to steal Helen from him.
(c) For any Greek warrior to fight him in man-to-man combat.
(d) For any Greek warrior to kill him with an arrow.

5. Why does Agamemnon tell the soldiers that they should give up and go home?
(a) He want. to see who really wants to fight.
(b) He is telling them his dream.
(c) He wants them all to go home.
(d) He is testing their loyalty.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who kills Adrestos?

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

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

4. What promise does Zeus get from Hera?

5. Who does Thetis appeal to in order to regain honor to Achilles?

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