The Iliad Quiz 2 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which Trojan warrior first challenges Achilles?

Correct Answer: A) Aeneas.

2. How does Penelope test her suitors?

Correct Answer: D) String Odysseus' bow.

3. Proud soldier who dies on his sword

Correct Answer: B) Ajax.

4. With Diomedes and Odysseus injured, who is the sole great warrior who is leading the charge against the Trojans in Book 15?

Correct Answer: B) Ajax.

5. Who was Achilles' mother?

Correct Answer: B) Thetis.

6. A dead body, specifically of a human being

Correct Answer: A) Corpse.

7. Who won the war?

Correct Answer: B) Greeks.

8. What did the children do to celebrate the retreat of the Greek forces in Scene 10?

Correct Answer: B) They put flower wreaths around the horse's neck and tossed blossoms at its feet.

9. What was Paris swayed by when he gave the apple to the goddess?

Correct Answer: D) Beauty.

10. Who is Helen?

Correct Answer: A) The wife of Menelaus; known as the most beautiful woman in the world.

11. What were Patroclus's last words?

Correct Answer: B) Achilles will bring you down.

12. Mocked

Correct Answer: A) Tease or laugh at.

13. Who seizes Briseis as a war prize?

Correct Answer: B) Achilles.

14. Are the Iliad and the Odyssey of a multiple or single authorship?

Correct Answer: B) Single.

15. What is the name of the town that the Achaeans sack?

Correct Answer: A) Troy.

16. Military operation in which forces surround a town or building

Correct Answer: A) Siege.

17. The Greeks laid siege to the walled city of Troy for ..... years.

Correct Answer: B) Ten.

18. Following the correct rites; with honor

Correct Answer: B) Honorable.

19. Who is the second greatest Greek warrior after Achilles?

Correct Answer: C) Ajax.

20. The first race of gods; gigantic but human-like

Correct Answer: C) Titans.