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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 is happy to see the leader of the Trojan army is safe?
(a) Hector.
(b) Andromache.
(c) Priam.
(d) Helen.

2. What is the story told about the birth of the Trojan prince?
(a) The Trojan prince was conceived in a lake and was the son of Zeus.
(b) 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.
(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) When the Trojan prince was born, his parents both were murdered and he was left an orphan.

3. Which army burns ships?
(a) King Agamemnon and his troops.
(b) Phoenician traders.
(c) Spartan forces.
(d) Trojan forces.

4. Who is the character that is taunted into a duel?
(a) Helen.
(b) Menelaus.
(c) Hector.
(d) Paris.

5. Who exerts a power over the queen that cannot be stopped?
(a) Aphrodite and Paris.
(b) Hermione and Hessia.
(c) Menelaus and Odysseus.
(d) Helen and Penelope.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is pleased by the arrival of the Spartan queen?

2. Why is marriage considered so important?

3. Who refuses to watch the conflict because it is too painful to bear?

4. Who is the young Trojan princess that draws the attention of the most famous Greek warrior?

5. Who is the girl desired by the king?

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