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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Thetis advise Achilles to do?
(a) Pray to the gods for help.
(b) Fight hard with strength.
(c) Wear his new armor into battle.
(d) Make up with Agamemnon.

2. What does Achilles' mother ask him to wait for?
(a) Her to bring back fighters.
(b) Her to bring back a god-made weapon.
(c) Her to bring back a new set of armor.
(d) Her to bring back a set of sea-armor.

3. What are the two sides in the war?
(a) The Greeks and the Trojans.
(b) The Spartans and the Greeks.
(c) The Creteans and the Trojans.
(d) The Trojans and the Spartans.

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

5. Who does Achilles send to get information on the war?
(a) Nestor.
(b) Patroclus.
(c) Phoenix.
(d) No one.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tells the gods about Zeus' plan?

2. Why does Agamemnon tell the soldiers that they should give up and go home?

3. After Zeus and Hera come to an agreement on Mount Olympus, who is sent to stir the men up to battle?

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

5. Achilles' mother is the daughter of which god?

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