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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What does Hera do to Poseidon?
(a) Nothing.
(b) Tells him she is going to tell Zeus of his disobedience.
(c) Asks him to keep interfering.
(d) Puts him into a deep sleep.

3. Who helps Diomedes when he is injured by Pandaros?
(a) Athena.
(b) Helena.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Hera.

4. Who does Athena disguise herself as?
(a) A Trojan man.
(b) A soldier.
(c) Helen.
(d) A goddess.

5. What does Poulydamas suggest to Hector?
(a) That the men don't cross the ditch.
(b) That the men climb on their horses' backs to cross the ditch.
(c) That the men get off their horses to cross the ditch.
(d) That the men build a bridge to cross the ditch.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does lifting the veil from Diomedes' eyes allow him to do?

2. What happens to Patroclus' horses?

3. What is the challenge Paris issues to the Greeks on the battlefield?

4. What is the eagle carrying when it appears as a sign as the Trojans are trying to cross the ditch on foot?

5. Who is Hera's messenger to Achilles?

(see the answer key)

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