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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. Which character goes disguised as a famous cousin and leads forces into battle?
(a) Hector.
(b) Achilles.
(c) Paris.
(d) Patroclus.

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

3. Which character cannot attend the ceremony for the stillborn child?
(a) Helen.
(b) Paris.
(c) Hector.
(d) Cassandra.

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

5. Who is happy to see the leader of the Trojan army is safe?
(a) Andromache.
(b) Helen.
(c) Priam.
(d) Hector.

Short Answer Questions

1. In the Author's Epilogue, who is the character who surprisingly returns to Sparta?

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

3. What is the name of the baby being rescued from the mansion?

4. Which characters are talking in the kitchen garden about marriage?

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

Short Essay Questions

1. What eventually happens to Helenus?

2. How does the Greek army respond to the death of Achilles?

3. Why does Cassandra choose to go to Hector's mansion instead of going straight to the temple of Athena?

4. Describe Polyxena's appearance.

5. Why is the child of Agamemnon sacrificed?

6. Why do Priam and Polyxena go to the Greek camp?

7. Which main character reveals a deceptive side?

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

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

10. What does Paris do that alters the fate of the Greek hero?

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