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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Who is the most scorned of Trojan warriors?
(a) Hector.
(b) Paris.
(c) King Agamemnon.
(d) Helenus.

3. Which character takes ten years to finally return home?
(a) Helen.
(b) Paris.
(c) Odysseus.
(d) Homer.

4. In Part 2, Chapter 10, which character appears cowardly?
(a) Paris.
(b) Andromache.
(c) Hector.
(d) Cassandra.

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

6. Who does not want to hear about the marriage plot?
(a) Cassandra.
(b) Helenus.
(c) Priam.
(d) Hector.

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

8. Which character grants ten days of truce?
(a) Menelaus.
(b) Priam.
(c) Cassandra.
(d) Achilles.

9. Who became invincible by being dipped in the river Styx?
(a) Hector.
(b) Paris.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Patroclus.

10. Which character's complexity is revealed with contrasting sides to his personality?
(a) Cassandra.
(b) Paris.
(c) Andromache.
(d) Helen.

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

12. Where does the royal family gather to see the enemy ships arrive?
(a) The Acropolis.
(b) The terrace above the Scaean Gate.
(c) The ocean bluffs.
(d) The dungeon.

13. Who watches the armies gather the dead when a truce is called?
(a) Achilles.
(b) Hector.
(c) Cassandra.
(d) Paris.

14. Who hears the sounds of mourning while talking?
(a) Helen and Menelaus.
(b) Helen and Cassandra.
(c) Andromache and Cassandra.
(d) Priam and Paris.

15. Who retires from battle?
(a) Achilles.
(b) Paris.
(c) Menelaus.
(d) Agamemnon.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who ties a naked body to a chariot and drives around the city walls?

2. Who is happy to see the leader of the Trojan army is safe?

3. Whose knowledge of the Greek hero's weakness leads to his defeat?

4. Which character is recognizable by long hair and a dance of death?

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

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