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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who must breathe strength into Hector?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Ares.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Poseidon.

2. After Apollo intervenes, who confronts Achilles first?
(a) Hector.
(b) Nestor.
(c) Aeneas.
(d) Paris.

3. Who is the fire god?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Hephaestus.
(c) Mars.
(d) Apollo.

4. After Agamemnon offers gifts in repentance to Achilles, where does Achilles tell Agamemnon their attention should be?
(a) On killing the Trojans.
(b) On winning the war.
(c) On not losing the war.
(d) On recoving Helen.

5. Who comes to grieve Patroclus' death with Achilles?
(a) His friends.
(b) His mother.
(c) His father .
(d) His brother.

6. What instructions does Achilles give to his horses?
(a) To return him home when he is done fighting.
(b) To run over any Trojans in his way.
(c) To return him to the Greeks when he is done fighting.
(d) To prevent any Trojans from stopping him.

7. Why does Poseidon interfere again?
(a) Because Hector is his grandson.
(b) Because Amphimachos is killed by Hector.
(c) Because Hector prays to Poseidon.
(d) Because Poseidon doesn't like Zeus.

8. What does Hermes do in the night to King Priam while he is in the Greek camp to ransom Hector's body?
(a) Wakes him up to prevent his death.
(b) Delivers a message from the gods.
(c) Delievers a message from the gods in his dreams.
(d) Wakes him up to get him to return home.

9. What does Achilles tell his mother he is going to do in response to Patroclus' death?
(a) Avenge Patroclus and kill the Trojans.
(b) Enter the fighting because he should have been there
(c) Enter the fighting to end the war.
(d) Avenge Patroclus and kill Hector.

10. Achilles kills so many men in the river, that he angers what god?
(a) Siemios.
(b) Hephaestus.
(c) Xanthus.
(d) Poseidon.

11. Achilles' mother is the daughter of which god?
(a) Apollo.
(b) Poseidon.
(c) Ares.
(d) Zeus.

12. Who was sent to the plain to guide King Priam safely through the Greek army?
(a) Hermes.
(b) Hera.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Athena.

13. After Patroclus is sent to the fighting by Achilles, Achilles asks what of Zeus?
(a) For the Greeks' success and safety.
(b) For Patroclus' success and safety.
(c) For Patroclus to be unharmed.
(d) For no more Greek ships to be burned.

14. During the fighting that occurs after the Greeks are driven to their ships by the Trojans, what inspires Menelaus to fight valiantly?
(a) The gods.
(b) The success of other men.
(c) The death of Hector.
(d) The ability to rescue Helen.

15. Achilles tells Patroclus that he is not fighting because of what?
(a) He does not want to die.
(b) Agamemnon's actions in the matter of Briseis.
(c) The prophecy his mother told him.
(d) The prophecy Kalchas made.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Zeus tell the divinities on Mount Olympus when he summons them after Achilles returns to the fighting?

2. Poseidon appears to whom in order to inspire him to lead his men onto the battlefield, but stay out of range of arrows so as not to be wounded further?

3. How many events are there in the funeral games?

4. What does Athena do to Achilles?

5. Who does Nestor meet with in order to discuss what to do now that they were wounded and could not fight?

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