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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the Trojans do to the Greek ships after Hector has had strength breathed into him by a god?
(a) Destroy them.
(b) Set fire to them.
(c) Sink them.
(d) Send them out to sea.

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

3. What does Athena do to Achilles?
(a) Makes him more visible with a shining sun over his head.
(b) Makes him more visible with a cloud of fire over his head.
(c) Makes him more visible by shining the sun on him.
(d) Makes him more visible with a bright star over his head.

4. What goddess gives the horses a voice?
(a) Hera.
(b) Athena.
(c) Thetis.
(d) Aphrodite.

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

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

7. Who is sent as a messenger to tell Achilles the gods are angry with him for the continued humiliation of Hector's body?
(a) Thetis.
(b) Iris.
(c) Athena.
(d) Hera.

8. Who does Poseidon appear to?
(a) The Trojans.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) The two Ajaxes.
(d) Odysseus.

9. Who does Poseidon disguise himself as when he appears to the Greeks after Zeus has taken his eyes off the battlefield?
(a) Kalchas.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Achilles.

10. After Hector has died, and is being dragged behind Achilles' chariot, who utters a lament for Hector?
(a) Andromena.
(b) Helen.
(c) Andromache.
(d) Karissia.

11. What does Achilles' mother ask him to wait for?
(a) Her to bring back a new set of armor.
(b) Her to bring back fighters.
(c) Her to bring back a set of sea-armor.
(d) Her to bring back a god-made weapon.

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

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

14. Who saves Hector from being killed?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Athena.
(c) Hera.
(d) Apollo.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What are Patroclus' horses doing after Patroclus dies while there is a fight over his body?

2. What does Thetis advise Achilles to do?

3. Who does Athena appear to Hector disguised as?

4. Who suggests that Odysseus, Diomedes, and Agamemnon go to the battlefield to be seen and not fight?

5. What do Athena and Poseidon urge Achilles to do after he has angered the river god?

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