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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 20.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Zeus and Hera come to an agreement on Mount Olympus, who is sent to stir the men up to battle?
(a) Ares.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Poseidon.
(d) Athena.

2. Which goddess hates Troy?
(a) Aphrodite.
(b) Hera.
(c) Athena.
(d) Artemis.

3. Who recommends that both sides take a break from the war to bury their dead?
(a) Hector.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Paris.
(d) Nestor.

4. Achilles tells Patroclus that he is not fighting because of what?
(a) The prophecy his mother told him.
(b) Agamemnon's actions in the matter of Briseis.
(c) He does not want to die.
(d) The prophecy Kalchas made.

5. What does Paris promise to Hector when Hector finds him after the Trojans retreat to the city?
(a) To prevent Hector's son from dying.
(b) To return to the fighting.
(c) To direct the fighting from the walls.
(d) To keep Hector's son safe.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Poulydamas suggest to Hector?

2. Who intervenes to prevent the soldiers from deserting Agamemnon?

3. What does Hera do to Poseidon?

4. What does Paris decide to do to end the fighting?

5. Who goes and spies on the Trojan camp?

(see the answer key)

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