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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Xanthos promise Achilles?
(a) To keep him safe this time.
(b) To fight with strength.
(c) To always stand by his side.
(d) To return him to the Greeks.

2. What weapon does Ajax carry?
(a) A large stone.
(b) A long sword.
(c) A long spear.
(d) A bow and arrow.

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

4. Why does Zeus take his eyes off the battlefield after the Trojans have driven the Greeks to their ships?
(a) Because he thinks no one will disobey him.
(b) He is no longer concerned about the battle.
(c) Hera and Athena pursuade him to leave the battle alone.
(d) He has other places to be concerned about.

5. Who tells the gods about Zeus' plan?
(a) Hera.
(b) Helen.
(c) Athena.
(d) Aphrodite.

6. Who does Apollo disguise himself as in order to delay Achilles from fighting Hector?
(a) Lycaon, son of King Troy.
(b) Lycaon, son of Zeus.
(c) Lycaon, son of King Agamemnon.
(d) Lycaon, son of King Priam.

7. What happens to Patroclus' horses?
(a) Zeus breathes strength into them so they can return to the ships.
(b) The horses die.
(c) Menelaus takes them back to the ships with Patroclus' body.
(d) They run back to the ships because they fear the noise of the battle.

8. What are Patroclus' horses doing after Patroclus dies while there is a fight over his body?
(a) Getting killed by the Trojans.
(b) Standing guard over Patroclus' body
(c) Weeping over his death.
(d) Running away from the battle.

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

10. How many events are there in the funeral games?
(a) Eight.
(b) Ten.
(c) Five.
(d) Twelve.

11. After being advised by Poulydamas to concentrate his forces for more strength, Hector is challenged by which Greek man?
(a) Odysseus.
(b) Ajax the Lesser.
(c) Ajax the Greater.
(d) Agamemnon.

12. Why does Apollo make Achilles chase him all over the plain?
(a) To give the Trojans time to enter the city.
(b) To give the Trojans time to help their women and children flee.
(c) To give the Trojans time to make their walls stronger.
(d) To give the Trojans time to collect their dead.

13. Who does Zeus send to Achilles with ambrosia?
(a) Athena.
(b) Hera.
(c) Aphrodite.
(d) Artemis.

14. Who does Nestor meet with in order to discuss what to do now that they were wounded and could not fight?
(a) Agamemnon, Odysseus, and Achilles.
(b) Odysseus, Diomedes, and Achilles.
(c) Agamemnon, Odysseus, and Diomedes.
(d) Achilles, Diomedes, and Agamemnon.

15. Who alerts the Trojans to King Priam's return?
(a) Cassandra.
(b) Paris.
(c) Aleanna.
(d) Helen.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Achilles keep from Patroclus?

2. Why does Poseidon interfere again?

3. Who must breathe strength into Hector?

4. Who does Poseidon disguise himself as when he appears to the Greeks after Zeus has taken his eyes off the battlefield?

5. Who reminds Achilles that his fate is to die under the Trojan walls?

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