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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why does Menelaus think Achilles will not come to fight?
(a) Because Achilles has no armor.
(b) Because Achilles swore not to fight.
(c) Because Achilles is in mourning for Patroclus.
(d) Because Achilles doesn't like Agamemnon.

2. After Patroclus has been avenged, who appears to Achilles in a dream to remind him of his fate?
(a) Apollo.
(b) Patroclus.
(c) Nestor.
(d) Hector.

3. Who does Athena appear to Hector disguised as?
(a) Diemirius.
(b) Deiphobos.
(c) Paris.
(d) Agenor.

4. Apollo takes what form on the battlefield?
(a) A mortal man, Agenor.
(b) A mortal man, Demedious.
(c) A mortal man, Hector.
(d) A mortal man, Klaudius.

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

6. Ajax wounds Hector with what?
(a) A sword.
(b) An arrow.
(c) A spear.
(d) A large stone.

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

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) Wakes him up to get him to return home.
(c) Delievers a message from the gods in his dreams.
(d) Delivers a message from the gods.

9. Who wins the armor of Achilles?
(a) Menelaus.
(b) Paris.
(c) Hector.
(d) Agamemnon.

10. Who is Hera's messenger to Achilles?
(a) Iris.
(b) Artemis.
(c) She goes herself.
(d) Athena.

11. Who kills Hector?
(a) Demedos.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Athena.

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

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

14. Patroclus wears what that belongs to Achilles?
(a) His helmet.
(b) His clothing.
(c) His armor.
(d) His crown.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is sent as a messenger to tell Achilles the gods are angry with him for the continued humiliation of Hector's body?

2. Who is the first Trojan to see Achilles approach the city gates?

3. What does Thetis advise Achilles to do?

4. What do the Trojans do to the Greek ships after Hector has had strength breathed into him by a god?

5. During the fighting that occurs after the Greeks are driven to their ships by the Trojans, what inspires Menelaus to fight valiantly?

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