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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who speaks to the Greek soldiers to convince them to stay and fight when Agamemnon is telling them to go home?
(a) Nestor.
(b) Odysseus.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Hera.

2. 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) Gives the two men a warning that they should leave the fighting so they aren't killed.
(c) Gives a warning to the two men to leave the Thacrian camp so they aren't killed.
(d) Nothing, she is forbidden to do anything by Zeuss

3. Who accompanies Chryseis back home?
(a) Talthybios.
(b) Aias.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Odysseus.

4. What is the response of the god to Hera's request for him to help the Greeks?
(a) No, he isn't interested.
(b) No, he will not disobey Zeus.
(c) No, he doesn't want to help Hera.
(d) No, he doesn't like the Greeks.

5. What is Helen weaving when she is visited by a divine messenger?
(a) A red robe with scenes from the war.
(b) A blue robe with scenes from the war.
(c) A red wall hanging with scenes from the war.
(d) A blue wall hanging with scenes from the war.

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

7. Who kills Adrestos?
(a) Odysseus.
(b) Adrestos doesn't die.
(c) Menelaus.
(d) Agamemnon.

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

9. What did the Greeks build without Poseidon's permission?
(a) A fort on the beach.
(b) A fleet of ships.
(c) A wall on the beach.
(d) A wall in the ocean.

10. How is Hector inspired in his plan to stop the fighting?
(a) Helenos told him of the gods' plan as a prophecy.
(b) Helenos told him of the gods' plan because he overheard the gods.
(c) Hector prayed about it and was told this was his answer.
(d) Zeus sent it to him in a dream.

11. Why does Andromache not want Hector to go back to the battle?
(a) She wants him to take over for Paris.
(b) She does not want him to kill any more Greeks.
(c) She does not want to be a widow and her son an orphan.
(d) She does not want to live without him.

12. Who prophesies that the Greeks will win the war against the Trojans in ten years?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Odysseus.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Kalchas.

13. In Achilles' absence, who is the Greek's best warrior?
(a) Odysseus.
(b) Aineas.
(c) Diomedes.
(d) Pandaros.

14. How do Diomedes and Glaukos seal their friendship?
(a) By praying together to the gods.
(b) By trading armor.
(c) By trading horses.
(d) By trading swords.

15. Agamemnon is confident that what?
(a) That Zeus is on his side.
(b) The gods are on his side.
(c) That the Greeks will win.
(d) That his army is superior.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why is Zeus awake at night in the beginning of Book 2?

2. What does Hector do when the Trojans are forced to retreat?

3. According to Zeus, who wins the duel between Paris and his Greek competitor on the battlefield?

4. Who answers Paris' challenge to the Greeks on the battlefield?

5. Who is Ares?

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