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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who answers Paris' challenge to the Greeks on the battlefield?
(a) Priam.
(b) Menelaus.
(c) Hector.
(d) Agamemnon.

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

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

5. Where do the Greeks retreat to?
(a) Their fort.
(b) Their cities.
(c) Their ships.
(d) Their camp.

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

7. Phoenix is what to Achilles?
(a) A cousin.
(b) A family retainer.
(c) A brother.
(d) A friend.

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

9. What is one of Achilles' possible destinies?
(a) He will return home from fighting the Trojans, and his glory will be everlasting.
(b) He will come home from fighting the Trojans, and he will have no glory
(c) He will not come home from fighting the Trojans, and he will have no glory.
(d) He will not return home from fighting the Trojans, but his glory will be everlasting.

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

11. Who is the priest that Achilles calls upon to see what must be done to appease Apollo?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Chryses.
(c) Aias.
(d) Kalchas.

12. When do the Trojans finally break through the wall?
(a) When Hector leads them.
(b) When they see the eagle.
(c) When the wall collapses.
(d) When their horses break it down.

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

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

15. Where did Hector's wife go to see if she can find him?
(a) The town square.
(b) The palace.
(c) The city walls.
(d) The gardens.

Short Answer Questions

1. Nestor reminds the men that they have not accomplished what goal?

2. Agamemnon is confident that what?

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

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

5. Who calls Agamemnon greedy for profit and shameless?

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