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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who answers Paris' challenge to the Greeks on the battlefield?
(a) Priam.
(b) Hector.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Menelaus.

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

3. What does Zeus send as a sign that he has heard Agamemnon when Hector is on the verge of burning the Greek ships?
(a) An eagle carrying an ox.
(b) An eagle carrying a deer.
(c) An eagle carrying a lamb.
(d) An eagle carrying an olive branch.

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

5. What does Diomedes say to his companions?
(a) That they should back down because the gods want Helen to go back home.
(b) That they should back down because the gods are assisting their enemies.
(c) That they should back down because the gods will make the weather bad for fighting.
(d) That they should back down because the gods will curse them.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Hector find Paris after the Trojans are forced to retreat?

2. Who is urging Paris to return to the battlefield?

3. Who decides the violence should end?

4. What is listed in Book 2?

5. What does Pandaros do to Menelaus in order to break the truce between the Greeks and the Trojans?

(see the answer key)

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