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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is Zeus' wife?
(a) Artemis.
(b) Hera.
(c) Thetis.
(d) Helen.

3. What is listed in Book 2?
(a) The names of the nobles fighting.
(b) The names of the troops.
(c) The troops and their ships.
(d) The gods and which side they are on.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the mortal man responsible for the plague against the army?

2. Who kills Adrestos?

3. What does Diomedes say to his companions?

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

5. Why do the mortals end up fighting without the gods?

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