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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which character symbolizes the peaceful life of the queen in Sparta and her royal duty to her husband?
(a) Hessia.
(b) Penelope.
(c) Hermione.
(d) Odysseus.

2. Who is considered the child of Zeus?
(a) Sparta.
(b) Theseus.
(c) Helen.
(d) Hessia.

3. Who is the character that is perceptive enough to notice a softening in the ship captain's attitude?
(a) Helen.
(b) Hessia.
(c) Theseus.
(d) Zeus.

4. Who is promised to Menelaus?
(a) Troy.
(b) Odysseus.
(c) Helen.
(d) Penelope.

5. What area is the gateway to Asia Minor?
(a) Athens.
(b) Troy.
(c) Sparta.
(d) Hellespont.

6. Who sees the fleeing lovers at the temple of Aphrodite?
(a) Menelaus.
(b) Priam.
(c) Penelope.
(d) Phoenician traders.

7. What are the bitter choices facing the queen if she departs?
(a) She loses her wealth.
(b) She would lose the beauty that she had become famous for.
(c) She could be killed.
(d) She risks losing her child and also being caught by her husband.

8. Who does not swear the oath of the suitors?
(a) Priam.
(b) Menelaus.
(c) Paris.
(d) Odysseus.

9. What is the dream the visionary character has of the Trojan prince?
(a) The Trojan prince is betrayed by a loved one.
(b) The Trojan prince dies in a war.
(c) The Trojan prince is seated cross-legged on cushions on a ship with a beautiful blonde woman playing a flute.
(d) The Trojan prince fights and fails.

10. Who is pleased by the arrival of the Spartan queen?
(a) Cassandra.
(b) Hector.
(c) Priam.
(d) Helenus.

11. Who sends a wedding gift of an Arabian mare?
(a) Penelope.
(b) Odysseus.
(c) Tyndareus.
(d) Theseus.

12. Which character is destined to have a stillborn child?
(a) Andromache.
(b) Penelope.
(c) Helen.
(d) Priam.

13. Which character evokes empathy in the reader?
(a) Paris.
(b) Odysseus.
(c) Cassandra.
(d) Helenus.

14. Who marries in Sparta in a wonderful ceremony?
(a) Helen and Menelaus.
(b) Odysseus and Penelope.
(c) Helen and Odysseus.
(d) Tyndareus and Penelope.

15. Who does not notice the covert flirtation occurring at the king's dinner table?
(a) Menelaus.
(b) Helen.
(c) Priam.
(d) Paris.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which character gives the bride advice to be happy with what she has received?

2. Whose name means final battle?

3. Who packs to leave despite objections from the nurse in Part 1, Chapter 12?

4. What is the name of the child born to the rulers of Sparta?

5. What is the sign Aphrodite sends?

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