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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. What does Helen challenge Paris to do?
(a) Fight without the gods' help.
(b) Go back and finish fighting Menelaus.
(c) Fight honorably to keep her.
(d) Go back and fight for her honor.

2. Why is Zeus awake at night in the beginning of Book 2?
(a) He is planning on how to bring honor to Achilles.
(b) He is planning on how to bring Helen home.
(c) He is planning on how to humiliate Agamemnon.
(d) He is planning on how to win the war for the Trojans.

3. Why does Andromache not want Hector to go back to the battle?
(a) She does not want him to kill any more Greeks.
(b) She does not want to live without him.
(c) She wants him to take over for Paris.
(d) She does not want to be a widow and her son an orphan.

4. Who is urging Paris to return to the battlefield?
(a) His mother.
(b) Helen and Hector.
(c) Hector.
(d) Helen.

5. What are the two sides in the war?
(a) The Greeks and the Trojans.
(b) The Creteans and the Trojans.
(c) The Spartans and the Greeks.
(d) The Trojans and the Spartans.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Achilles' absence, who is the Greek's best warrior?

2. What does Pandaros do to Menelaus in order to break the truce between the Greeks and the Trojans?

3. Where is the eagle injured?

4. Why does Phoenix burst into tears after Achilles' speach?

5. Who calls Agamemnon greedy for profit and shameless?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do the Trojans successfully attack the wall the Greeks have built?

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

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

4. How does Paris' selfishness manifest itself in Book 7?

5. How does Hector shame Paris into fighting the duel?

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

7. Who does Nestor blame for the Greek's current state of affairs, and what is his suggestion?

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

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

10. What is Athena's warning to Diomedes in Book 5?

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