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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Which characters are talking in the kitchen garden about marriage?
(a) Menelaus and Achilles.
(b) Andromache and Helen.
(c) Paris and Deiphobus.
(d) Agamemnon and Paris.

2. What is the terrible vision involving the family of a Trojan prince?
(a) The family is burned alive.
(b) The family is ripped out of their beds and slain by vengeful Greeks.
(c) The family is drowned by force.
(d) The family is buried alive.

3. Who does not retreat behind Trojan walls but prepares to battle the enraged Greek hero?
(a) Hector.
(b) Patroclus.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Paris.

4. Who tries to save the warrior from bleeding to death?
(a) Cassandra.
(b) Patroclus.
(c) Helen.
(d) Surgeons.

5. What do the women do when there is a lull in the battle?
(a) They barricade themselves underground.
(b) They learn how to fight.
(c) They dance and celebrate.
(d) They wash linens and bathe in a snow-fed pool.

6. Who is happy to see the leader of the Trojan army is safe?
(a) Priam.
(b) Helen.
(c) Hector.
(d) Andromache.

7. Which characters scheme against the Greek warrior by playing upon his attraction to a young princess?
(a) Cassandra and Helen.
(b) Cassandra and Polyxena.
(c) Helen and Polyxena.
(d) Penelope and Helen.

8. Which characters become friends?
(a) Odysseus and Paris.
(b) Helen and Cassandra.
(c) King Agamemnon and Hector.
(d) Penelope and Clytemnestra.

9. What event creates a holiday mood in Troy?
(a) The arrival of the Greeks.
(b) The birth of a royal heir.
(c) The marriage of the Trojan prince.
(d) A week of winemaking.

10. Who ties a naked body to a chariot and drives around the city walls?
(a) Patroclus.
(b) Hector.
(c) Menelaus.
(d) Achilles.

11. Who plots to break his promise and enslave one of the women?
(a) Deiphobus.
(b) Ajax.
(c) Menelaus.
(d) Agamemnon.

12. Who wreaks violence like a fiery tempest on the battlefield?
(a) Patroclus.
(b) Achilles.
(c) Hector.
(d) Paris.

13. Who is afraid of the gift that the Greeks left behind?
(a) Helen.
(b) Achilles.
(c) Paris.
(d) Cassandra.

14. Who bristles at the idea of marriage to the legendary Greek hero?
(a) Helen.
(b) Polyxena.
(c) Cassandra.
(d) Penelope.

15. Who encourages single combat to end the war?
(a) Hector.
(b) Deiphobus.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Cassandra.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who emerges as a confident and heroic character that makes courageous choices?

2. Which character symbolizes a different kind of power for women?

3. Who treats a wound from a spear inflicted on a sibling?

4. Which character disappears when dust obscures vision of the field?

5. Who are some of the warriors hidden for a surprise attack?

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