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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who comes to grieve Patroclus' death with Achilles?
(a) His mother.
(b) His brother.
(c) His friends.
(d) His father .

2. During the fighting that occurs after the Greeks are driven to their ships by the Trojans, what inspires Menelaus to fight valiantly?
(a) The success of other men.
(b) The death of Hector.
(c) The gods.
(d) The ability to rescue Helen.

3. Who is the first man who offers to fight Hector when Hector challenges the Greeks to a duel so that the fighting can end??
(a) Aias.
(b) Odysseus.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Menelaus.

4. After being advised by Poulydamas to concentrate his forces for more strength, Hector is challenged by which Greek man?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Ajax the Greater.
(c) Ajax the Lesser.
(d) Odysseus.

5. After Zeus sends the goddess of Hate down to the Greeks, what does he send Iris to tell Hector?
(a) To pull back until the morning.
(b) To pull back until Agamemnon asks to talk to Hector.
(c) To pull back until Agamemnon is dead.
(d) To pull back until Agamemnon is wounded.

Short Answer Questions

1. What did the Greeks build without Poseidon's permission?

2. Why does Andromache not want Hector to go back to the battle?

3. Poseidon appears to whom in order to inspire him to lead his men onto the battlefield, but stay out of range of arrows so as not to be wounded further?

4. Who stops Achilles from killing Agamemnon?

5. Why does Phoenix burst into tears after Achilles' speach?

(see the answer key)

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