The Iliad Quiz 24 (20 MCQs)

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1. Whose idea is to build the Trojan Horse?

Correct Answer: C) Odysseus.

2. Who did Paris run off with?

Correct Answer: C) Helen of Troy.

3. What are the three main themes in the Iliad?

Correct Answer: B) Glory Or Family, Fate, Mortals, War.

4. Which three characters were sent to persuade Achilles to continue to fight in the war?

Correct Answer: D) Phoenix Odysseus Ajax.

5. The army came to be in great ..... of food and clothes.

Correct Answer: B) Want.

6. Peleus and Thetis

Correct Answer: B) Are the parents of Achilles.

7. Trojan beauty taken by Agamemnon

Correct Answer: C) Uses.

8. The hero of a legend is often .....

Correct Answer: B) A demigod.

9. Why was Telemachus so determined to find Odysseus?

Correct Answer: D) All reasons mentioned.

10. Which of the following pairs are demigods?

Correct Answer: B) Achilles and Helen.

11. Who is the goddess of discord?

Correct Answer: C) Eris.

12. She offered Paris wisdom in exchange of the title "The fairest of the goddesses"

Correct Answer: C) Athena.

13. Achilles through the ..... in the sand

Correct Answer: D) Scepter.

14. Which god's use of fire contains Xanthus, the river?

Correct Answer: A) Vulcan (Hephaestus).

15. An example of a HULKING person might be:

Correct Answer: B) A large, bulky football player.

16. What message is written on the golden apple?

Correct Answer: A) For the most beautiful.

17. How does Aphrodite bribe Paris and persuade him to give her the apple?

Correct Answer: A) She offers him the most beautiful woman in the world.

18. Which warrior first defends Patroclus's body?

Correct Answer: A) Menelaus.

19. The father of Hector and Paris who mourned the former, urging him not to go to battle

Correct Answer: A) King Menelaus.

20. Who encouraged Pandarus to shoot his arrow and break the truce, in book four?

Correct Answer: B) Athene.