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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the thorny issue facing the father of the young woman who is being courted by many suitors?
(a) His daughter is cursed.
(b) His daughter is pregnant with the child of a suitor.
(c) Because of her obsessive charm, the young woman evokes jealousy and possessiveness in her suitors, who will then become enemies of whomever her father chooses as her husband.
(d) He does not like any of the suitors.

2. What wedding gift is considered ominous?
(a) The thousand goats.
(b) The four matching chariot horses.
(c) The gift of the circular mirror in the shape of Aphrodite.
(d) The Arabian white mare.

3. Who believes that the best action is to sacrifice to the gods and wait?
(a) Menelaus.
(b) Priam.
(c) Cassandra.
(d) Helenus.

4. Who has hairy arms?
(a) Menelaus.
(b) Penelope.
(c) Odysseus.
(d) Helen.

5. Who is the character that kidnaps a twelve-year old as ransom in gold?
(a) Penelope.
(b) Theseus.
(c) Helen.
(d) Paris.

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

7. Why is marriage considered so important?
(a) Marriage will create conflict for the king of Greece.
(b) Marriage will result in the decline of Grecian power.
(c) Marriage of royalty forges political alliances, uniting wealth and spreading influence.
(d) Marriage is forbidden for the lovers.

8. Who lies around the city steeped in blood in the dream?
(a) Hector.
(b) Slain warriors.
(c) Helen.
(d) Paris.

9. Which character learns about the terrible vision of death awaiting the head of the Trojan army?
(a) Andromache.
(b) Helen.
(c) Antimachus.
(d) Odysseus.

10. Who is considered more intelligent than all the suitors combined?
(a) Helen.
(b) Penelope.
(c) Odysseus.
(d) Menelaus.

11. What is the plan offered in the men's hall to choose the suitor?
(a) All the men who wish to be considered as suitors must swear oaths to protect the winner as blood brothers for the rest of their lives.
(b) All suitors must forsake all gambling and drinking forever if they want to be considered.
(c) All suitors must promise to defend the king all their lives if they want to be considered.
(d) The man who can fight off all the other suitors single-handedly will win the hand of the bride.

12. What is the name of the child born to the rulers of Sparta?
(a) Menelaus.
(b) Hellespont.
(c) Hermione.
(d) Tyrone.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who predicts that the visionary princess will not have to wed?

2. Who refuses to listen to the visionary character?

3. Which character runs to share a vision to a sibling?

4. What is revealed about women in Greek society in Part 1, Chapter 6?

5. Which character has thirteen suitors?

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