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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who are some of the Greek hero's victims?
(a) Cassandra, Odysseus, and Penelope.
(b) Paris, Helen, and Helenus.
(c) Coroebus, Pandarus, and Othronus.
(d) King Agamemnon, Hector, and Menelaus.

2. What is considered forbidden fruit?
(a) Honeyed wine that is only given to the gods.
(b) Penelope whom the Trojan prince pursues.
(c) The clandestine relationship of Helen, the wife of Menelaus, with Paris.
(d) Taking possession of the Grecian kingdom covertly.

3. Whose violent deaths make the Greek king lose his desire to rule?
(a) Menelaus.
(b) Odysseus.
(c) Aphrodite.
(d) Helen's brothers.

4. Who is the character most moved by the arrival of the Trojan prince?
(a) Penelope.
(b) Helen.
(c) Odysseus.
(d) Menelaus.

5. What is the story told about the birth of the Trojan prince?
(a) When the Trojan prince was born, his parents both were murdered and he was left an orphan.
(b) The Trojan prince was conceived in a lake and was the son of Zeus.
(c) The Trojan prince was spirited away by demons and forced to live sequestered on an island till he was rescued as an adolescent.
(d) The Trojan prince was left on a mountainside because of a dream his mother had of burning sticks and cared for by a shepherd until he returned to Troy and won the annual games and confessed his royal birth.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who supposedly sent the dust storm?

2. Who falls in love soon after the royal banquet?

3. Who is told by an oracle to sacrifice a daughter?

4. Who is the character that is taunted into a duel?

5. Which characters are talking in the kitchen garden about marriage?

(see the answer key)

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