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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do the women do when there is a lull in the battle?
(a) They wash linens and bathe in a snow-fed pool.
(b) They learn how to fight.
(c) They dance and celebrate.
(d) They barricade themselves underground.

2. Which character must distract Menelaus in order to escape destruction?
(a) Penelope.
(b) Helen.
(c) Hermione.
(d) Cassandra.

3. Who retires from battle?
(a) Achilles.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Menelaus.
(d) Paris.

4. Who shoots an arrow that renders the Greek hero vulnerable?
(a) Hector.
(b) Paris.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Helenus.

5. In the Author's Epilogue, who is the character who surprisingly returns to Sparta?
(a) Paris.
(b) Cassandra.
(c) Menelaus.
(d) Helen.

6. Who sails up the Hellespont to raid Thrace?
(a) Achilles and his battalion of Myrmidons.
(b) Paris and his archers.
(c) King Agamemnon and his troops.
(d) Hector and his army.

7. Which character disappears when dust obscures vision of the field?
(a) Paris.
(b) Hector.
(c) Menelaus.
(d) Achilles.

8. Who is the young Trojan princess that draws the attention of the most famous Greek warrior?
(a) Penelope.
(b) Helen.
(c) Cassandra.
(d) Polyxena.

9. In Part 2, Chapter 10, which character appears cowardly?
(a) Paris.
(b) Cassandra.
(c) Andromache.
(d) Hector.

10. Who tries to save the warrior from bleeding to death?
(a) Helen.
(b) Cassandra.
(c) Patroclus.
(d) Surgeons.

11. Who ties a naked body to a chariot and drives around the city walls?
(a) Achilles.
(b) Patroclus.
(c) Menelaus.
(d) Hector.

12. Which two warriors battle without gaining an advantage?
(a) Agamemnon and Priam.
(b) Hector and Ajax.
(c) Achilles and Menelaus.
(d) Paris and Deiphobus.

13. Which character takes ten years to finally return home?
(a) Homer.
(b) Helen.
(c) Odysseus.
(d) Paris.

14. What event creates a holiday mood in Troy?
(a) The arrival of the Greeks.
(b) The birth of a royal heir.
(c) The marriage of the Trojan prince.
(d) A week of winemaking.

15. Where is the new capital of Troy built?
(a) Athens.
(b) Buthrotum.
(c) Sparta.
(d) Aurelia.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who becomes worried because of the death of the courageous cousin?

2. Who wreaks violence like a fiery tempest on the battlefield?

3. Which character breaks the truce by wounding the Spartan king?

4. Which characters become friends?

5. Who supposedly sent the dust storm?

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