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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Poulydamas suggest to Hector?
(a) That the men get off their horses to cross the ditch.
(b) That the men don't cross the ditch.
(c) That the men build a bridge to cross the ditch.
(d) That the men climb on their horses' backs to cross the ditch.

2. What does Hector do when the Trojans are forced to retreat?
(a) Goes into the city and asks the elders and women to evacuate.
(b) Goes into the city and gives a speech to the elders and women.
(c) Goes into the city and asks the elders and women to pray to the gods.
(d) Goes into the city and asks the elders and women to sacrifice to the gods.

3. Who does Thetis appeal to in order to regain honor to Achilles?
(a) Hera.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Odysseus.
(d) Agamemnon.

4. Who goes and spies on the Trojan camp?
(a) Odysseus and Menelaus.
(b) Diomedes and Odysseus.
(c) Diomedes.
(d) Menelaus and Diomedes.

5. Who does Zeus send down to the Greeks to stir up the battle?
(a) Hate.
(b) Athena.
(c) Ares.
(d) Lust.

6. Why do the men gather down by their vessels at the end of Book 2?
(a) To prove their loyalty.
(b) To go home.
(c) To get ready to fight.
(d) To stir up the war god.

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

8. What is Diomedes allowed to do to Aphrodite if necessary?
(a) Warn her away.
(b) Stab her.
(c) Spear her.
(d) Talk to her.

9. Who recommends that both sides take a break from the war to bury their dead?
(a) Hector.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Nestor.
(d) Paris.

10. Why is Zeus awake at night in the beginning of Book 2?
(a) He is planning on how to humiliate Agamemnon.
(b) He is planning on how to win the war for the Trojans.
(c) He is planning on how to bring honor to Achilles.
(d) He is planning on how to bring Helen home.

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

12. What about Helen angers Aphrodite in Book 3?
(a) That Helen can resist her.
(b) That Helen is unhappy.
(c) That Helen wants Menelaus.
(d) That Helen doesn't want to go to Paris.

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

14. Which god does Hera ask to help the Greeks when she sees the Greeks are overwhelmed?
(a) Poseidon.
(b) Ares.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Zeus.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who opposes the speech which encourages the Greeks to fight after Agamemnon tells them to go home?

2. How do Diomedes and Glaukos seal their friendship?

3. What does Patroclus do for the wound of Eurypylos?

4. How does Aphrodite flee the battle in Book 5?

5. What objects are sacrificed before the duel in Book 3 between Paris and his competition?

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