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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Patroclus' horses?
(a) Menelaus takes them back to the ships with Patroclus' body.
(b) The horses die.
(c) They run back to the ships because they fear the noise of the battle.
(d) Zeus breathes strength into them so they can return to the ships.

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

3. What does Helen challenge Paris to do?
(a) Fight without the gods' help.
(b) Fight honorably to keep her.
(c) Go back and fight for her honor.
(d) Go back and finish fighting Menelaus.

4. What does Pandaros do to Menelaus in order to break the truce between the Greeks and the Trojans?
(a) Stab Menelaus with a sword.
(b) Stab Menelaus with a spear.
(c) Run down Menelaus with a horse.
(d) Shoot an arrow at Menelaus.

5. Who suggests that Odysseus, Diomedes, and Agamemnon go to the battlefield to be seen and not fight?
(a) Diomedes.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Nestor .
(d) Odysseus.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why do the men gather down by their vessels at the end of Book 2?

3. What do the Trojans do to the Greek ships after Hector has had strength breathed into him by a god?

4. Who calls Agamemnon greedy for profit and shameless?

5. Where has Eurypylos been wounded

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