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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who speaks to the Greek soldiers to convince them to stay and fight when Agamemnon is telling them to go home?

2. Which goddess hates Troy?

3. Which god does Hera ask to help the Greeks when she sees the Greeks are overwhelmed?

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

5. Who helps Diomedes when he is injured by Pandaros?

Short Essay Questions

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

2. In the beginning of Book 10, what happens when the Trojan and Greek spies meet?

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

4. How are Hector and his wife different from Helen and Paris?

5. What are the origins of Achilles' anger?

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

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

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

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

10. What is the state of mind of Agamemnon in Book 4?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What are some of the tests that characters have issued to other characters in The Iliad? What was the point of these tests? By providing these contrasts, does Homer think that human nature can change, or that it stays the same?

Essay Topic 2

Please pick one of the following options to write about:

1) How pride caused Hector's death.

2) How envy cause the war to being.

3) How greed caused a division in the Greek forces.

Essay Topic 3

Which character do you identify as the main character in The Iliad? Why? Support your answer with at least five examples from the book.

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