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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose name means final battle?
(a) Hellespont.
(b) Sparta.
(c) Telemachus.
(d) Hermione.

2. Who takes the palace treasury on to a ship?
(a) Helen.
(b) Odysseus.
(c) Menelaus.
(d) Priam.

3. What is the thorny issue facing the father of the young woman who is being courted by many suitors?
(a) He does not like any of the suitors.
(b) 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.
(c) His daughter is pregnant with the child of a suitor.
(d) His daughter is cursed.

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

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

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

7. Who packs to leave despite objections from the nurse in Part 1, Chapter 12?
(a) Priam.
(b) Helen.
(c) Hermione.
(d) Paris.

8. Whose love does the queen now understand?
(a) Priam.
(b) Paris.
(c) Penelope.
(d) Menelaus.

9. In Part 2, Chapter 5, with whom do the Trojans want to forge alliances?
(a) Phoenician kingdoms.
(b) Athenian kingdoms.
(c) Thracian kingdoms.
(d) Spartan kingdoms.

10. Why is the visionary character shunned by others?
(a) This character drinks too much.
(b) This character is diseased.
(c) This character has unhappy visions that turn out to be true.
(d) This character rambles and is scary in appearance.

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

12. Who is hostile towards the Spartan queen?
(a) Hector.
(b) Andromache.
(c) Cassandra.
(d) Antimachus.

13. Which character has thirteen suitors?
(a) Odysseus.
(b) Helen.
(c) Demeter.
(d) Clytemnestra.

14. Who predicts that the visionary princess will not have to wed?
(a) Paris.
(b) Helenus.
(c) Phoenician traders.
(d) King Nestor of Pylos.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is the leader of the Trojan army?

3. Who is promised to Menelaus?

4. What is the dream the visionary character has of the Trojan prince?

5. Who interrupts the suitors in the men's hall to present a plan for choosing the winning suitor?

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