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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 11.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does lifting the veil from Diomedes' eyes allow him to do?
(a) See the gods whenever he wants.
(b) See the gods during sacrifices.
(c) See the gods on Mount Olympus.
(d) See the gods when they are helping the enemy.

2. Who joins forces with the Greeks to even the odds against Ares?
(a) Apollo and Athena.
(b) Hera and Aphrodite.
(c) Hera and Athena.
(d) Aphrodite and Apollo.

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

4. What does Athena do to help the Greek spies after they steal from the Thracian camp?
(a) Gives a warning to the two men to leave the Thacrian camp so they aren't captured.
(b) Nothing, she is forbidden to do anything by Zeuss
(c) Gives the two men a warning that they should leave the fighting so they aren't killed.
(d) Gives a warning to the two men to leave the Thacrian camp so they aren't killed.

5. Why is Zeus awake at night in the beginning of Book 2?
(a) He is planning on how to bring honor to Achilles.
(b) He is planning on how to win the war for the Trojans.
(c) He is planning on how to bring Helen home.
(d) He is planning on how to humiliate Agamemnon.

Short Answer Questions

1. How is Hector inspired in his plan to stop the fighting?

2. Why does Hector chastise Paris when he finds Paris with the troops and not preparing to meet his challenger from the Greek army?

3. What frightens Hector's son?

4. Where has Eurypylos been wounded

5. What emotion causes Agamemnon to have a change of heart towards Achilles?

(see the answer key)

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