The Iliad Quiz 8 (60 MCQs)

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1. Friendly group who offers Odysseus's men a sweet treat.
2. Where are Telemachus and Odysseus from?
3. At the opening of The Iliad, the Trojan Was as been going on for .....
4. Which lit device?:teaches and wrong through actions in a story
5. Which of the following statements best shows Agamemnon's reasoning for taking Briseis from Achilles?
6. Homer's epics had a tremendous influence on later generations of Greek writers.
7. Which god(dess) convinces a Trojan soldier to shoot an arrow?
8. Epics, in their usual form is in:
9. This is the sacred bond between a host and a guest in Greek traditions that Paris broke after stealing Helen away from Sparta.
10. Who kneels and kisses Achilles' hands as a sign of desperation and pleading?
11. What is the main conflict in the Iliad?
12. Who is the Greek hero that kills Hector in the Iliad?
13. Zeus feels sorry for
14. Whose idea is to build the Trojan Horse?
15. Who did Paris run off with?
16. What are the three main themes in the Iliad?
17. Which three characters were sent to persuade Achilles to continue to fight in the war?
18. The army came to be in great ..... of food and clothes.
19. Peleus and Thetis
20. Trojan beauty taken by Agamemnon
21. The hero of a legend is often .....
22. Why was Telemachus so determined to find Odysseus?
23. Which of the following pairs are demigods?
24. Who is the goddess of discord?
25. She offered Paris wisdom in exchange of the title "The fairest of the goddesses"
26. Achilles through the ..... in the sand
27. Which god's use of fire contains Xanthus, the river?
28. An example of a HULKING person might be:
29. What message is written on the golden apple?
30. How does Aphrodite bribe Paris and persuade him to give her the apple?
31. Which warrior first defends Patroclus's body?
32. The father of Hector and Paris who mourned the former, urging him not to go to battle
33. Who encouraged Pandarus to shoot his arrow and break the truce, in book four?
34. Odysseus is the king of .....
35. Leader of the Greek forces
36. Who reveals that the plague is a punishment of Chryses and Apollo?
37. The Prudent old man from Greece who went to war with Agamemnon.
38. Which of these grieving actions does Achilles not perform upon hearing of Patroclus's death?
39. Who is Patroclus?
40. Who won the Golden Apple?
41. An example of a VALIANT character is:
42. Which god(dess) rescues Paris?
43. What causes "twelve of [the noblest Trojan] champions [to fall] beneath the wheels of their chariots and [perish] by their own spears" ?
44. Her appearance down to earth to start the battle again caused confusion among both sides
45. Camilla fell. Mezentius died after his son was killed. Lastly, Aeneas defeated .....
46. What god did Chryses pray to after King Agamemnon refused to free his daughter from slavery?
47. What is Laocoon's opinion about the wooden horse?
48. To avoid the wrath of the goddesses, I have decided that a mortal man decide who the fairest of them all is.
49. Hector states that Achilles has a heart of .....
50. The Trojan War centers around Greek soldiers attacking Troy in order to retrieve ..... ?
51. Which goddess supports Paris during the poem?
52. Inflict harm in return for a wrongdoing
53. Which lit device?:the substitute of a potentially offensive phrase with a more appropriate one
54. Father Heaven; locked his children in a black hole under the earth
55. What is another name for a "journey" .
56. I am considered as the greatest warrior in the Trojan War, being dipped in River Styx to acquire invulnerability from weapons.
57. Agamemnon gives Achilles all of the previously promised gifts.
58. How does Hector show his bravery?
59. What is an Achilles heel?
60. How long is Odysseus's journey?