This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Greek Classics > The Iliad > The Iliad – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books The Iliad Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Discuss and plan A) Gain. B) Piteous. C) Take counsel. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Take counsel. 2. Who was not at the Judgment of Paris? A) Paris. B) Helen. C) Aphrodite. D) Athena. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Helen. 3. According to the Ancient Greeks, Where did good people go in the afterlife? A) Heaven. B) Tartarus. C) Mount Olympus. D) Elysian Fields. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Elysian Fields. 4. Which Greek goddess supports the Trojans in the war? A) Artemis. B) Hera. C) Athena. D) Aphrodite. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Aphrodite. 5. The fire Aeneas saw as he sailed away from Carthage A) Feast for his departure. B) Fireworks. C) Funeral pyre. D) Bonfire. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Funeral pyre. 6. What's the first word of the Iliad? A) Sing. B) Muse. C) Achilles. D) Rage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rage. 7. Which lit device?:a story told by word of mouth (oral tradition) A) Morality tale. B) Fairy tale. C) People talk. D) Wagging tale. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) People talk. 8. For the reason that I was not invited to a wedding, I decided to throw a golden apple to cause misunderstanding among the goddesses. A) Hera. B) Athena. C) Eris. D) Aphrodite. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Eris. 9. COWARDICE means: A) Lacking enthusiasm. B) Lacking control. C) Lacking courage. D) Lacking strength. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lacking courage. 10. Who was Achilles A) The husband of Helen. B) The greatest Greek warrior. C) The general of the Greek army. D) The King of Sparta. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The greatest Greek warrior. 11. The Iliad was composed in the A) 8th century B.C. B) 12th century B.C. C) 2nd century A.D. D) 4th century B.C. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 8th century B.C. 12. Who makes Achilles' new armor A) Patroclus. B) Hephaestus. C) Zeus. D) Athena. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hephaestus. 13. What woman is the most important and beautiful person in the story? A) Athena. B) Aphrodite. C) Helen. D) Chryses. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Helen. 14. The son of Hector and Andromache. A) Pallas. B) Paris. C) Ajax. D) Astyanax. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Astyanax. 15. Achilles still refuses to fight. Patroclus puts on Achilles armor, fights the Trojans and dies. Who kills Patroclus? A) Hector. B) Achilles. C) Agamemnon. D) Odysseus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hector. 16. What was Achilles' only weakness? A) His sword. B) His heel. C) His pride. D) His shield. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) His heel. 17. The epic hero is often born into A) Power. B) Poverty. C) Chaos. D) Ordinary world. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Power. 18. The ..... of the man being evil came true A) Spoiled. B) Sacrifice. C) Want. D) Prophesy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Prophesy. 19. Comply"So she urged and the swift runner complied at once ..... " A) Obey. B) Leave. C) Enter. D) Disobey. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Obey. 20. What is the main topic of The Iliad Book 16? A) The death of Patroclus and Achilles' revenge on Hector. B) The love story between Helen and Paris. C) The Trojan Horse and the fall of Troy. D) The journey of Odysseus after the Trojan War. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The death of Patroclus and Achilles' revenge on Hector. 21. Helen of Troy is originally from. A) Athens. B) Sparta. C) Mycenae. D) Ithaca. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sparta. 22. What does the narrator suggest about the effects of wars? A) They have long-lasting effects. B) They are confined to the battlefield. C) They bring prosperity. D) They are quickly forgotten. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They have long-lasting effects. 23. Who is the main character of "The Odyssey?" A) Agamemnon. B) Homer. C) Troy. D) Odysseus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Odysseus. 24. Cause continual trouble or distress A) Dignity. B) Hobbled. C) Contempt. D) Plague (v). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plague (v). 25. How do the Trojans break down the gate in the Greeks' wall? A) Hector lifts up a huge boulder and throws it at the gates. B) Priam sends warrior after warrior against it. C) Paris prays to Venus (Aphrodite) and it falls on its own. D) They don't. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hector lifts up a huge boulder and throws it at the gates. 26. When the Cyclops asks Odysseus' name, what does the hero tell him? A) His mother is the rosy-fingered Dawn. B) He tells the Cyclops his real name. C) He is the son of Poseidon. D) He says his name is "Nohbdy.". Show Answer Correct Answer: D) He says his name is "Nohbdy.". 27. Why did all the men agree to go fight in the war? A) They wanted to save the most beautiful woman in the world. B) They wanted to help Menalaus because he was a leader of Greece. C) They wanted to obtain treasures from the war. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All the above. 28. What does it mean to be impartial? A) Judge. B) Unbiased. C) Upbeat. D) Nonjudgmental. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unbiased. 29. Who gets to throw their spear first? A) Menelaus. B) Agamemnon. C) Priam. D) Paris. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Paris. 30. Who is the father of Achilles? A) Priam. B) Peleus. C) Hecuba. D) Apollo. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Peleus. 31. Achilles dragged dead Hector's ..... from his chariot. A) Hand. B) Clothes. C) Elbow. D) Head. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Head. 32. A great city, very powerful and rich, second to none on Earth. A) Persia. B) Athens. C) Troy. D) Sparta. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Troy. 33. What is the name of the character? A) King Liam. B) Agamemnon. C) Hector. D) Patroclus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Agamemnon. 34. How does Aphrodite's rescue of Paris contribute to the development of the plot? A) It forces Zeus to argue with Hera. B) It ends the fighting once and for all. C) It makes Hector proud of his brother Paris for his clever escape. D) It forces Zeus to give in to Hera's wishes so that the battle resumes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It forces Zeus to give in to Hera's wishes so that the battle resumes. 35. Who is Menelaus? A) He is the husband of Eris. B) He is the husband of Helen. C) He is the husband of Hera. D) He is the father of Persephone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He is the husband of Helen. 36. I was asked to judge which of three goddesses was the most beautiful. They bribed me for the title. A) Peleus. B) Paris. C) Eris. D) Zeus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Paris. 37. Who is sent as an embassy to Achilles in the Iliad? A) Odysseus. B) Paris. C) Agamemnon. D) Hector. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Odysseus. 38. How does Agamemnon try to persuade Achilles to return to the battle? A) He offers Briseis and one of his daughters. B) He offers him command of the Greek army. C) He claims that Hector is a superior warrior that cannot be beaten. D) He tries to make Achilles feel guilty for abandoning the Greeks. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) He offers Briseis and one of his daughters. 39. When Hector returns to Troy he finds his wife ..... A) Preparing food. B) Listening to music. C) Washing clothes. D) Crying. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Crying. 40. What do you have in ring a round the rosie A) Pocket full of tissues. B) Pocket full of ashes. C) Pocket full of peonies. D) Pocket full of posies. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pocket full of posies. 41. "'Now restaurants can stay open as long as they like, ' he said gleefully." In this sentence, gleefully means: A) In a joyous manner. B) In a lethargic or tired manner. C) In a disbelieving manner. D) In a sad manner. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In a joyous manner. 42. Who was the fairest lady with the face that launched a thousand ships? A) Aphrodite. B) Frances. C) Andromache. D) Helen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Helen. 43. Which god loosens the armor that Patroclus is wearing? A) Poseidon. B) Zeus. C) Apollo. D) Ares. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Apollo. 44. What kind of story is The Iliad? A) Novel. B) Poem. C) Play. D) Short story. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Poem. 45. What is the central theme of the Iliad? A) The importance of family and loyalty. B) The pursuit of glory and honor. C) The role of the gods in human affairs. D) The destructive power of pride and the consequences of war. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The destructive power of pride and the consequences of war. 46. "The face that launched a thousand ships" A) Clytemnestra. B) Polyxena. C) Cassandra. D) Helen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Helen. 47. You cannot have an epic hero without an epic A) Tragedy. B) War. C) Loss. D) Journey. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Journey. 48. What is the MAIN CONFLICT of BOOK THREE? A) Helen wants to return home, but Paris won't let her. B) Both Hector and Paris want to be the hero in the battle. C) The Trojans and the Achaeans agree to the terms of the duel. D) Aphrodite takes Paris to safety leaving the winner of the duel unclear. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Aphrodite takes Paris to safety leaving the winner of the duel unclear. 49. Patroklos puts on Achilles armor, fights the Trojans and dies. Who kills Patroklos? A) Odysseus. B) Achilles. C) Hector. D) Agamemnon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hector. 50. Who was Chryseis seized by? A) Achilles. B) Nestor. C) Menelaus. D) Agamemnon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Agamemnon. 51. Which lit device?:a long narrative poem that contains a hero and often a fantastic creature such as a monster A) Epic poem. B) Epic simile. C) Creation story. D) Morality tale. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epic poem. 52. I was slain by Achilles before my parents' eyes, leaving the Trojans with no leading warrior. A) Hector. B) Patroclus. C) Priam. D) Paris. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hector. 53. Suggestions or idea or course of action A) Gain. B) Covenant. C) Propose. D) Prey. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Propose. 54. Why does the river Xanthus fight Achilles? A) The river is angry that the battle is being fought. B) The river is tired of bodies clogging up his water. C) The river has been told to stop Achilles by Jove (Zeus). D) The river hates Achilles. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The river is tired of bodies clogging up his water. 55. Who is King Priam? A) King of Sparta. B) King of Troy. C) King of Pylos. D) King of Ithaka. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) King of Troy. 56. Who visits Achilles in his dream? A) Priam. B) The ghost of Hector. C) Young (Zeus). D) The ghost of Patroclus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The ghost of Patroclus. 57. Was Hector tricked by athena? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 58. Who was the most beautiful woman in the world? A) Queen Hecuba. B) Athena. C) Thetis. D) Helen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Helen. 59. What does fire represent in the Iliad? A) It represents fire. B) It represents courage. C) It represents feelings or ferocity. D) It represents hope. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It represents feelings or ferocity. 60. (n.)a melting pot used for extremely hot chemical reaction A) Crucible. B) Crucible. C) Credible. D) Crucial. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Crucible. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesGreek Classics QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesThe Iliad Quiz 1The Iliad Quiz 2The Iliad Quiz 3The Iliad Quiz 5The Iliad Quiz 6The Iliad Quiz 7The Iliad Quiz 8The Iliad Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books