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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What emotion causes Agamemnon to have a change of heart towards Achilles?
(a) Humility over his army's losses.
(b) Humility towards the gods.
(c) A desire to win.
(d) A desire to get Helen back.

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

3. What does Helen challenge Paris to do?
(a) Go back and fight for her honor.
(b) Fight without the gods' help.
(c) Fight honorably to keep her.
(d) Go back and finish fighting Menelaus.

4. Why do the men gather down by their vessels at the end of Book 2?
(a) To stir up the war god.
(b) To prove their loyalty.
(c) To get ready to fight.
(d) To go home.

5. Who joins forces with the Greeks to even the odds against Ares?
(a) Aphrodite and Apollo.
(b) Apollo and Athena.
(c) Hera and Athena.
(d) Hera and Aphrodite.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who opposes the speech which encourages the Greeks to fight after Agamemnon tells them to go home?

2. Who prophesies that the Greeks will win the war against the Trojans in ten years?

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

4. What objects are sacrificed before the duel in Book 3 between Paris and his competition?

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

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