This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Greek Classics > The Iliad > The Iliad – Quiz 10 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Iliad Quiz 10 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Who was Odysseus's wife? A) Penelope. B) Arete. C) Athena. D) Calypso. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Penelope. 2. Where does the Odyssey take place? A) England. B) Egypt. C) Greece. D) Rome. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Greece. 3. What are the three main Motifs in the Iliad? A) Burial, Armor Fire. B) Armor, Burial Fire. C) Burial, Fire, Armor. D) Fire, Armor, Burial. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fire, Armor, Burial. 4. Someone who is showing LAMENT might: A) Cry and apologize. B) Shout and celebrate. C) Eat often. D) Be quiet in class but loud at home. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cry and apologize. 5. What is one theme of the Iliad (specifically book 1)? A) Rationality. B) Regret. C) Rage. D) Revenge. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rage. 6. A solemn promise A) Hordes. B) Oath. C) Conjure. D) Melee. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oath. 7. Which goddess appears to Achilles and prevents a duel between him and Agamemnon? A) Aphrodite. B) Artemis. C) Hera. D) Athena. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Athena. 8. Athena pretends to be Hector's brother during a battle. What is this an example of? A) Epic Simile. B) Fate. C) Cultural Value. D) Divine Intervention. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Divine Intervention. 9. In the Iliad, who counsels Zeus to let his son's death happen as it is fated to? A) Achilles. B) Hera. C) Apollo. D) Athena. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hera. 10. COVID-19 may long remain a blight on our memories of the year 2020. In this sentence, blight means: A) Attack, offensive. B) Disrespect, insolence. C) Curse, plague. D) Shock, horror. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Curse, plague. 11. Which of the following has Odysseus NOT experienced prior to Book 9 of The Odyssey? A) Sacks a city. B) Loses his ship. C) Almost drowns. D) Receives help from Athena. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Loses his ship. 12. The feeling that a person is beneath consideration, worthless, or deserving scorn A) Mortal. B) Siege. C) Contempt. D) Compensated. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Contempt. 13. How long has the war been raging at Troy? A) 5 years. B) 9 years. C) 20 years. D) 1 year. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 9 years. 14. Which god(dess) breaks the strap on Paris's helmet? A) Hermes. B) Athena. C) Aphrodite. D) Apollo. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aphrodite. 15. True or False:women were considered equal in Ancient Greece? A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) FALSE. 16. Who was the first one to see Achilles with his new armour? A) Apollo. B) Priam. C) Hector. D) Peleion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Priam. 17. King who was leader of the Achaean (Greek) forces? A) Patroclus. B) Agamemnon. C) Priam. D) Pericles. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Agamemnon. 18. What did Aphrodite do for Paris? A) She made Helen fall in love with him. B) She helped him win a war. C) She helped him find his family. D) She gave him money. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She made Helen fall in love with him. 19. Which character best fits the archetype of mentor for the Greeks? A) Ajax. B) Nestor. C) Agamemnon. D) Odysseus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nestor. 20. Which character is Achilles' cousin? A) Odysseus. B) Diomedes. C) Phoenix. D) Patroclus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Patroclus. 21. Which lit device?:reference to a well known person, place, event, literary work, or work of art A) Allusion. B) Epic simile. C) Symbol. D) Euphemism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allusion. 22. How did the Greek finally defeat the Trojan? A) By waiting until the Trojan ran out of food and were starving. B) They did not defeat the Trojan, the Trojan won the war. C) By convincing Zeus to use lightning bolt to knock down the main gate of the city. D) By hiding in a giant wooden horse that the Trojan thought was a gift. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) By hiding in a giant wooden horse that the Trojan thought was a gift. 23. President Trump and his cabinet members worked frantically to try to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. In this sentence, frantically means: A) Fearfully, with fear. B) Enthusiastically, passionately. C) Desperately, excitedly. D) Angrily, vengefully. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Desperately, excitedly. 24. Who was frightened and fled when he saw Achilles? A) Apollo. B) Hector. C) Priam. D) Peleus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hector. 25. What does Athena turn Odysseus into when he returns? A) The beggar. B) A pig. C) A god. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The beggar. 26. What modern country is Troy in? A) Syria. B) Greece. C) Turkey. D) Bulgaria. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Turkey. 27. Sad and pathetic A) Gain. B) Spoiled. C) Piteous. D) Lion's share. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Piteous. 28. Achilles allows Patroclus to fight if A) He agrees to only protect the ships. B) He agrees to sail home afterward. C) He agrees to wear Achilles' armor. D) He agrees to shame Agamemnon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He agrees to only protect the ships. 29. What was one major cause of this war? A) Achilles was angry. B) Hector is weak. C) Agamemnon is greedy. D) Paris took Hercules. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Agamemnon is greedy. 30. Pick one who sides with the Achaeans (Greeks) A) Zeus. B) Apollo. C) Hera. D) Ares. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hera. 31. How was Achilles made "immortal" ? A) He was dipped in the River Styx. B) He was born that way. C) He drank special nectar. D) Zeus granted a wish for him to be immortal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He was dipped in the River Styx. 32. What did Odysseus do to avoid going to war? A) Killed the messanger of the king. B) Stayed at home. C) Had more children. D) Pretended to be mad. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pretended to be mad. 33. The armor that Patroklos wears onto the battlefield belongs to A) Zeus. B) Himself. C) Hephaestus. D) Achilles. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Achilles. 34. The Iliad was written by A) Hector. B) Herodotus. C) Horace. D) Homer. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Homer. 35. (n.)a strong fence made of stakes driven into the ground A) Straws. B) Palestine. C) Pakistan. D) Palisade. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Palisade. 36. Who is the main character and the greatest warrior in the Iliad? A) Hector. B) Achilles. C) Agamemnon. D) Menelaus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Achilles. 37. Who is the King of Sparta (Achaean Army)? A) Priam. B) Agamemnon. C) Paris. D) Menelaus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Agamemnon. 38. When Priam and Agamemnon meet, what animal do they sacrifice? A) A cow. B) A deer. C) A rabbit. D) A sheep. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A sheep. 39. A place in the Underworld where souls of the good dead, poets, heroes, and priests are. A) Rhadamanthus. B) Tiber. C) Elysian Fields. D) Minotaur. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Elysian Fields. 40. Which word best describes Ancient Athens? A) Warrior-like. B) Disciplined. C) Militaristic. D) Educated. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Educated. 41. The ancient Greeks valued human qualities such as loyalty, respect, hospitality, and valor. In this sentence, valor means: A) Widespread disease. B) Good manners and courtesy. C) Attack on an enemy. D) Courage in the face of danger. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Courage in the face of danger. 42. Which Trojan soldier broke the truce? A) Priam. B) Paris. C) Pandarus. D) Sarpedon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pandarus. 43. What makes Hector fight Achilles even though his family asks him not to? A) Kleos (Glory). B) Anger. C) Revenge. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kleos (Glory). 44. Where does Andromache go when she hears that the Trojans are hard-pressed? A) To her sisters' house. B) To Athena's shrine. C) To Priam's palace. D) To the wall of Troy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To the wall of Troy. 45. The most terrible Titan Mother Earth birthed after the war A) Typhon. B) Atlas. C) Poseidon. D) Cronus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Typhon. 46. He was warned by Faunus not to marry his daughter to any man but to a stranger A) Rhadamanthus. B) Lao do Mia. C) Camilla. D) Latin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Latin. 47. What does Hector request of Achilles? A) That he forfeit. B) That he keep his armor. C) That he returns his body to Troy. D) That he buries him honorably. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) That he returns his body to Troy. 48. Who did Paris give the apple to? A) Athene. B) Hera. C) Aphrodite. D) None of them. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aphrodite. 49. Why did Agamemnon feel the need to take Briseis from Achilles? A) He had to show that he was in charge. B) He hated Achilles. C) He wanted to please Apollo and end the plague on his troops. D) He was in love with Briseis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He had to show that he was in charge. 50. Aphrodite's interference was monumental in determining the outcome of the war. In this sentence, monumental means: A) Strongly disrespectful. B) Showing courage in the face of danger. C) Having exceptional skill. D) Having great significance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Having great significance. 51. Which of the following dies in the movie, but DOESN'T die in the story A) Agamemnon. B) Menelaus. C) Helen. D) Paris. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Menelaus. 52. "The seductive power of Black Friday sales can be too much for some people to resist. Those people may easily spend more than they have budgeted." In this sentence, seductive means: A) Fruitful. B) Disgusting. C) Tempting. D) Disrespectful. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tempting. 53. Who is the epic hero in The Iliad A) Hector. B) Paris. C) Priam. D) Achilles. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Achilles. 54. Juno (Hera), Minerva (Athena), Neptune (Poseidon), Mercury (Hermes), and Vulcan (Hephaestus) took which side? A) Greek. B) Trojan. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Greek. 55. How does the Iliad develop the topic of Hubris? A) Characters make decisions based on their pride and ego more than reason. B) Characters show courage and bravery during their battles. C) Characters make sacrifices for those they love. D) Characters obey the commands of superiors. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Characters make decisions based on their pride and ego more than reason. 56. Who is Odysseus? A) King of Sparta and noble warrior. B) A prophet of the Achaeans. C) An Achaean warrior known for his wisdom and speaking skills. D) A soothsayer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An Achaean warrior known for his wisdom and speaking skills. 57. Which city is the setting for The Iliad? A) Troy. B) Sparta. C) Rome. D) Athens. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Troy. 58. What takes place after the climax that prepares the story for its resolution? A) Resolution. B) Rising action. C) Falling action. D) Exposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Falling action. 59. Someone showing vanity might be likely to: A) Keep checking himself out in the mirror. B) Invest money to save for retirement. C) Donate clothing to those in need. D) Stop making quick judgments of others. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Keep checking himself out in the mirror. 60. Introduction to a literary text A) Fate. B) Prologue. C) Siege. D) Mortal. 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