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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Xanthos promise Achilles?
(a) To keep him safe this time.
(b) To always stand by his side.
(c) To return him to the Greeks.
(d) To fight with strength.

2. After being advised by Poulydamas to concentrate his forces for more strength, Hector is challenged by which Greek man?
(a) Ajax the Lesser.
(b) Odysseus.
(c) Ajax the Greater.
(d) Agamemnon.

3. What does Achilles tell his mother he is going to do in response to Patroclus' death?
(a) Avenge Patroclus and kill Hector.
(b) Enter the fighting to end the war.
(c) Avenge Patroclus and kill the Trojans.
(d) Enter the fighting because he should have been there

4. Patroclus leaves Eurypylos to go to whom?
(a) Hector.
(b) Odysseus.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Achilles.

5. Why does Menelaus think Achilles will not come to fight?
(a) Because Achilles swore not to fight.
(b) Because Achilles doesn't like Agamemnon.
(c) Because Achilles is in mourning for Patroclus.
(d) Because Achilles has no armor.

6. What does Hector beg to have happen with his body?
(a) That it be delivered to his brother.
(b) That it be given to Paris.
(c) That it be delivered to King Priam.
(d) That it be taken back to Troy.

7. Hera injures what god?
(a) Athena.
(b) Artemis.
(c) Poseidon.
(d) Apollo.

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

9. During the fighting that occurs after the Greeks are driven to their ships by the Trojans, what inspires Menelaus to fight valiantly?
(a) The success of other men.
(b) The gods.
(c) The ability to rescue Helen.
(d) The death of Hector.

10. Apollo reminds Patroclus of what?
(a) That it is not his fate to kill Hector.
(b) That it is not his fate to take the city of Troy.
(c) That it is not his fate to die this day.
(d) That it is not his fate to destroy Paris.

11. Who's withdrawal weakens the Trojan army?
(a) Poseidon.
(b) Hector.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Paris.

12. What goddess gives the horses a voice?
(a) Aphrodite.
(b) Thetis.
(c) Hera.
(d) Athena.

13. Achilles' mother is the daughter of which god?
(a) Ares.
(b) Poseidon.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Apollo.

14. Who does Zeus send to Achilles with ambrosia?
(a) Artemis.
(b) Aphrodite.
(c) Athena.
(d) Hera.

15. Who saves Hector from being killed?
(a) Athena.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Hera.
(d) Apollo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why does Poseidon interfere again?

2. After Apollo intervenes, who confronts Achilles first?

3. Aphrodite anoints Hectors corpse with what?

4. Poseidon appears to whom in order to inspire him to lead his men onto the battlefield, but stay out of range of arrows so as not to be wounded further?

5. Why does Zeus take his eyes off the battlefield after the Trojans have driven the Greeks to their ships?

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