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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the reason the queen feels compelled to abandon her home?
(a) She wants to avert a war.
(b) She wants to save her son.
(c) She feels controlled by the goddess Aphrodite who convinces her to follow the Trojan prince.
(d) She hates her husband.

2. Which character evokes empathy in the reader?
(a) Cassandra.
(b) Paris.
(c) Odysseus.
(d) Helenus.

3. Who is promised to Menelaus?
(a) Helen.
(b) Penelope.
(c) Odysseus.
(d) Troy.

4. What is the name of the child born to the rulers of Sparta?
(a) Hermione.
(b) Tyrone.
(c) Menelaus.
(d) Hellespont.

5. Who sends a wedding gift of an Arabian mare?
(a) Theseus.
(b) Odysseus.
(c) Penelope.
(d) Tyndareus.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Part 1, Chapter 5, who stalls making a decision on marriage by staging hunts instead?

2. What area is the gateway to Asia Minor?

3. Who are the characters who bring the ransom?

4. Whose love does the queen now understand?

5. Who dismisses the visions saying no one will believe them?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the most painful decision facing Helen?

2. Describe Helen in Part 1, Chapter 1.

3. What is the reason that Menelaus gives for waging war with Troy?

4. Why does Andromache appear hostile?

5. Describe Helen through Menelaus' eyes when he first sees her.

6. What efforts do the Trojans take to expand their forces?

7. What does Penelope notice about Odysseus?

8. In Part 2, Chapter 3, what is the dreadful vision that involves the Trojan prince?

9. What is the role played by Clytemnestra during the royal courtship?

10. What is the transformation that happens to Helen after she leaves home?

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