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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. Who demands that the Trojans concede victory to the Greeks and return Helen?
(a) Menelaus
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Priam.
(d) Achilles.

2. What is Helen weaving when she is visited by a divine messenger?
(a) A red robe with scenes from the war.
(b) A blue wall hanging with scenes from the war.
(c) A blue robe with scenes from the war.
(d) A red wall hanging with scenes from the war.

3. Who was the mortal man responsible for the plague against the army?
(a) Odysseus.
(b) Achilles.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Chratheus.

4. Where is the eagle injured?
(a) Chest and neck.
(b) Neck and stomach.
(c) Chest and throat.
(d) Head and chest.

5. What does Poulydamas suggest to Hector?
(a) That the men build a bridge to cross the ditch.
(b) That the men don't cross the ditch.
(c) That the men get off their horses to cross the ditch.
(d) That the men climb on their horses' backs to cross the ditch.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the eagle carrying when it appears as a sign as the Trojans are trying to cross the ditch on foot?

2. Why does Andromache not want Hector to go back to the battle?

3. What is listed in Book 2?

4. What god or goddess helps the Greeks in Book 4?

5. Who accompanies Chryseis back home?

Short Essay Questions

1. Is Paris a weak character? Please support your answer with examples from the book.

2. In Book 3, why is Paris considered a coward?

3. What does Athena's interference in the truce between the Trojans and the Greeks cause?

4. Why does Zeus want in return for Hera's interfering in the war?

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

6. In Book 7, who decides the fighting should end and how do they plan that end?

7. At the beginning of Book 1, what are we told the story will be about?

8. What do Hera and Athena promise Zeus, when Zeus notices their preparations for intervention in the war?

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

10. Dione gives some advice to Aphrodite in Book 5. What is that advice?

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