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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Which character swears allegiance to the Trojan family and even the Spartan queen?
(a) Cassandra.
(b) Paris.
(c) Helenus.
(d) Achilles.

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

4. Who spends a night with the angry Greek hero?
(a) Polyxena.
(b) Menelaus.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Cassandra.

5. What is the name of the baby being rescued from the mansion?
(a) Hermione.
(b) Astyanax.
(c) Telemachus.
(d) Deiphobus.

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

7. Who strips off the armor of the Greek warrior after slaying him in battle?
(a) Paris.
(b) Helenus.
(c) Hector.
(d) Achilles.

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

9. Which character's complexity is revealed with contrasting sides to his personality?
(a) Helen.
(b) Cassandra.
(c) Andromache.
(d) Paris.

10. Who watches the armies gather the dead when a truce is called?
(a) Achilles.
(b) Cassandra.
(c) Hector.
(d) Paris.

11. Who bristles at the idea of marriage to the legendary Greek hero?
(a) Polyxena.
(b) Cassandra.
(c) Penelope.
(d) Helen.

12. Who refuses to watch the conflict because it is too painful to bear?
(a) Helen.
(b) Priam.
(c) Andromache.
(d) Cassandra.

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

14. Who are some of the Greek hero's victims?
(a) Cassandra, Odysseus, and Penelope.
(b) Coroebus, Pandarus, and Othronus.
(c) Paris, Helen, and Helenus.
(d) King Agamemnon, Hector, and Menelaus.

15. Who runs into the garden to weep as the battle rages?
(a) Cassandra.
(b) Helen.
(c) Paris.
(d) Priam.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who arrives at the Trojan palace from the field covered in blood?

2. Who is deceptively led away to Aulis?

3. What happens when the contest is halted?

4. Which character disappears when dust obscures vision of the field?

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

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