View a FREE sample

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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who hears the sounds of mourning while talking?
(a) Andromache and Cassandra.
(b) Priam and Paris.
(c) Helen and Cassandra.
(d) Helen and Menelaus.

2. Who does not want to hear about the marriage plot?
(a) Priam.
(b) Hector.
(c) Helenus.
(d) Cassandra.

3. Who wreaks violence like a fiery tempest on the battlefield?
(a) Patroclus.
(b) Hector.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Paris.

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

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

6. Who is assisted by the heroic character to safety immediately?
(a) Achilles.
(b) Priam.
(c) Cassandra.
(d) Helen.

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

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

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

10. Which character describes what is contained inside the gift?
(a) Achilles.
(b) Deiphobus.
(c) Helenus.
(d) Cassandra.

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

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

13. Who plots to break his promise and enslave one of the women?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Deiphobus.
(c) Ajax.
(d) Menelaus.

14. Who runs past sleeping servants in a royal mansion and sees soldiers stealthily emerging outside?
(a) Cassandra.
(b) Helen.
(c) Paris.
(d) Achilles.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who watches the armies gather the dead when a truce is called?

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

3. Who are some of the Greek hero's victims?

4. Who is the most scorned of Trojan warriors?

5. What do the women do when there is a lull in the battle?

(see the answer keys)

This section contains 326 words (approx. 2 pages at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample