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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part 2, Chapter 14.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who sails up the Hellespont to raid Thrace?
(a) King Agamemnon and his troops.
(b) Paris and his archers.
(c) Hector and his army.
(d) Achilles and his battalion of Myrmidons.

2. Who sacks the city of Sion?
(a) Helen.
(b) Helenus.
(c) Paris.
(d) Priam.

3. Who are the characters who bring the ransom?
(a) Helen's brothers.
(b) Helen's parents.
(c) Theseus' son.
(d) Clytemnestra and Menelaus.

4. What is the name of the child born to the rulers of Sparta?
(a) Tyrone.
(b) Menelaus.
(c) Hermione.
(d) Hellespont.

5. Who is the girl desired by the king?
(a) Polyxena.
(b) Briseis.
(c) Helen.
(d) Cassandra.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who watches the armies gather the dead when a truce is called?

2. Which characters are talking in the kitchen garden about marriage?

3. What is the reason the queen feels compelled to abandon her home?

4. Who has a painful vision of the death of a Trojan prince?

5. What does Aphrodite apparently promise the Trojan prince?

(see the answer key)

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