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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What will Pandaros get if he follows the advice of Athena and causes more fighting?
(a) A place among the kings and princes.
(b) Great honor.
(c) A place among the gods.
(d) Great glory.

2. Who was the mortal man responsible for the plague against the army?
(a) Chratheus.
(b) Achilles.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Odysseus.

3. Why does Agamemnon tell the soldiers that they should give up and go home?
(a) He is telling them his dream.
(b) He want. to see who really wants to fight.
(c) He is testing their loyalty.
(d) He wants them all to go home.

4. What does Zeus suggest to Agamemnon in a dream in order to trick him?
(a) That the Greeks will gain lots of treaures from Troy.
(b) That the Greeks will be victorious over the Trojans in the next batttle.
(c) That the Greeks will beat the Trojans in the war.
(d) That the Greeks will rescue Helen in the next battle.

5. Who opposes the speech which encourages the Greeks to fight after Agamemnon tells them to go home?
(a) Nestor.
(b) Phyrous.
(c) Thersites.
(d) Hera.

Short Answer Questions

1. What god or goddess helps the Greeks in Book 4?

2. Who stops Achilles from killing Agamemnon?

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

4. Who is the priest that Achilles calls upon to see what must be done to appease Apollo?

5. The book opens during what year of the Trojan War?

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