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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aphrodite apparently promise the Trojan prince?
(a) Aphrodite promises the Trojan prince that he will win any war he fights.
(b) Aphrodite promises that the Trojan prince will be eternally youthful.
(c) If Aphrodite is made queen of Sparta, she will grant the Trojan prince anything he desires.
(d) If Aphrodite becomes the winner of a contest among three goddesses, she will give Helen to the Trojan prince.

2. Who lies around the city steeped in blood in the dream?
(a) Helen.
(b) Slain warriors.
(c) Paris.
(d) Hector.

3. Who interrupts the suitors in the men's hall to present a plan for choosing the winning suitor?
(a) Odysseus.
(b) Penelope.
(c) Menelaus.
(d) Tyndareus.

4. Who predicts that the visionary princess will not have to wed?
(a) Paris.
(b) Helenus.
(c) King Nestor of Pylos.
(d) Phoenician traders.

5. Who leads the Greek delegation in Part 2, Chapter 3?
(a) Paris.
(b) Priam.
(c) Phoenician traders.
(d) King Nestor of Pylos.

Short Answer Questions

1. Where does Helen's sadness stem from?

2. Who does not swear the oath of the suitors?

3. Who is this character that plays knucklebones with a cousin and does not want to give up childish things such as running down to see the new foal in the stable?

4. What is the reason the Grecian king might consider going to war?

5. Whose name means final battle?

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