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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. Whose safety during the marriage ploy is at stake?
(a) Cassandra.
(b) Polyxena.
(c) Andromache.
(d) Paris.

2. Which character grants ten days of truce?
(a) Cassandra.
(b) Priam.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Menelaus.

3. Who does not retreat behind Trojan walls but prepares to battle the enraged Greek hero?
(a) Paris.
(b) Patroclus.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Hector.

4. Which two characters wrangle over a bet they made?
(a) Paris and Deiphobus.
(b) Achilles and Menelaus.
(c) Agamemnon and Paris.
(d) Helen and Cassandra.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who spends a night with the angry Greek hero?

2. Who escapes and builds the city of Rome?

3. What do Greek soldiers come out of in the middle of the night?

4. Who ties a naked body to a chariot and drives around the city walls?

5. Who becomes angry about the idea of matchmaking the legendary Greek hero with a Trojan princess?

Short Essay Questions

1. What eventually happens to Helenus?

2. Which main character reveals a deceptive side?

3. Who are the only soldiers spared on the battlefield and why?

4. How does Helen survive after the war?

5. Why does Hector miss the funeral of his child?

6. In Part 2, Chapter 19, what risk does Cassandra take?

7. What does Cassandra wish to confide in her brother?

8. What are some of the challenges facing the Trojan army?

9. Why is the child of Agamemnon sacrificed?

10. Describe the discussion in the Trojan kitchen garden as war begins.

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