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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Agamemnon's offer to Achilles is meant to do what?
(a) Get Achilles to bring the gods onto the side of the Greeks.
(b) Get Achilles to forgive Agamemnon.
(c) Get Achilles to not fight for the Trojans.
(d) Get Achilles to come back and fight for the Greeks.

2. Who helps Diomedes when he is injured by Pandaros?
(a) Hera.
(b) Helena.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Athena.

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

4. Who does Achilles send to get information on the war?
(a) Nestor.
(b) No one.
(c) Patroclus.
(d) Phoenix.

5. Why does Hector chastise Paris when he finds Paris with the troops and not preparing to meet his challenger from the Greek army?
(a) For bringing the Trojans to war and being a coward.
(b) For being a coward for not standing up and accepting his challenge.
(c) For bringing the Trojans to the point of war and his selfishness for stealing another man's wife.
(d) For stealing another man's wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who stops Achilles from killing Agamemnon?

2. After Zeus sends the goddess of Hate down to the Greeks, what does he send Iris to tell Hector?

3. The book opens during what year of the Trojan War?

4. Who is Achilles' mother?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Diomedes and Glaukos end up friends?

2. What do Odysseus and Diomedes do with the information they gain from the Trojan spy?

3. In Book 11, what happens while Achilles watches the battle from his ship?

4. After the Trojans retreat to the city, why does Hector ask for sacrifices to the gods?

5. What are Achilles' two possible destinies according to his mother?

6. What is the interpretation of the eagle and the snake that Hector does not like?

7. In Book 2, was Zeus' plan for Agamemnon successful?

8. What are the origins of Achilles' anger?

9. In Book 3, what is one emotion that Helen might be feeling, and why?

10. After Achilles tells his sorrows to his mother, what does his mother do?

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