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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. 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) Agamemnon.
(b) Odysseus.
(c) Menelaus.
(d) Aias.

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

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

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

5. Who does Athena disguise herself as?
(a) A Trojan man.
(b) A goddess.
(c) A soldier.
(d) Helen.

6. The book opens during what year of the Trojan War?
(a) The first year.
(b) The eleventh year.
(c) The fifth year.
(d) The tenth year.

7. Who does King Priam blame for the war?
(a) The gods.
(b) The Greeks.
(c) Paris.
(d) Helen.

8. Which Greek man's death is foretold by Zeus to Hera?
(a) Menelaus.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Odysseus.
(d) Patroclus

9. What god or goddess helps the Greeks in Book 4?
(a) Athena.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Hera.
(d) Zeus.

10. What does Zeus forbid the other gods to do after he tells them his plan?
(a) From accepting sacrifices from the mortals on either side.
(b) From helping the mortals on either side.
(c) From talking about his plans to the mortals on either side.
(d) From visiting the mortals on either side.

11. Who intervenes to prevent the soldiers from deserting Agamemnon?
(a) Athena and Helen.
(b) Athena and Artemis.
(c) Hera and Artemis.
(d) Athena and Hera.

12. Who is Aphrodite's mother?
(a) Athena.
(b) Dione.
(c) A mortal.
(d) Hera.

13. Why does Agamemnon tell the soldiers that they should give up and go home?
(a) He want. to see who really wants to fight.
(b) He wants them all to go home.
(c) He is testing their loyalty.
(d) He is telling them his dream.

14. Who are the two beautiful women that are captured as war prizes?
(a) Chryseis and Briseis.
(b) Atheanna and Kristianna.
(c) Olysis and Banalis.
(d) Charmis and Braeisis.

15. Who is the wise leader from Pylos who tries to stop Achilles and Agamemnon from arguing?
(a) Nathan.
(b) Darius.
(c) Pylosies.
(d) Nestor.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Helen sit next to when watching Paris taking part in the duel on the battlefield?

2. Who goes and spies on the Greek camp?

3. Which god or goddess protects Paris during the challenge that he issued to the Greeks on the battlefield?

4. What does Zeus send as a sign that he has heard Agamemnon when Hector is on the verge of burning the Greek ships?

5. In Achilles' absence, who is the Greek's best warrior?

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