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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is deceptively led away to Aulis?
(a) Hector.
(b) Iphigenia.
(c) King Agamemnon.
(d) Helen.

2. Who goes to the Greek camp to get the body of the slain warrior?
(a) Polyxena and Priam.
(b) Paris and Hector.
(c) Achilles and Menelaus.
(d) Helen and Cassandra.

3. Which characters scheme against the Greek warrior by playing upon his attraction to a young princess?
(a) Helen and Polyxena.
(b) Cassandra and Polyxena.
(c) Cassandra and Helen.
(d) Penelope and Helen.

4. What is sent back to the Greek camp to be sacrificed?
(a) A thousand goats.
(b) The head of a lion.
(c) Twelve noblemen.
(d) Two Trojan leaders.

5. Who treats a wound from a spear inflicted on a sibling?
(a) Helenus.
(b) Paris.
(c) Hector.
(d) Cassandra.

6. Whose fate is unclear at the end of the story and has numerous different tales, ranging from going mad to leading a new dynasty and being murdered?
(a) Paris.
(b) Cassandra.
(c) Menelaus.
(d) Helen.

7. Which character is sewing and avoiding any fearful thoughts?
(a) Andromache.
(b) Priam.
(c) Helen.
(d) Cassandra.

8. Where do the Trojan citizens escape to hide?
(a) The temple of Athena.
(b) The caves in the hills.
(c) The underground passage.
(d) The ocean.

9. Which characters are talking in the kitchen garden about marriage?
(a) Andromache and Helen.
(b) Agamemnon and Paris.
(c) Menelaus and Achilles.
(d) Paris and Deiphobus.

10. Which character is recognizable by long hair and a dance of death?
(a) Hector.
(b) Achilles.
(c) Menelaus.
(d) Paris.

11. Which characters become friends?
(a) Penelope and Clytemnestra.
(b) Odysseus and Paris.
(c) King Agamemnon and Hector.
(d) Helen and Cassandra.

12. Which character warns the women of the duel?
(a) Hector.
(b) Helenus.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Menelaus.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is afraid of the gift that the Greeks left behind?

2. Who is the character that is taunted into a duel?

3. Who does not want to hear about the marriage plot?

4. Which character grants ten days of truce?

5. Whose knowledge of the Greek hero's weakness leads to his defeat?

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