The Iliad Quiz 5 (20 MCQs)

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1. The poem ends with the funeral of

Correct Answer: A) Hector.

2. Which lit device?:the standards and expectations of society

Correct Answer: C) Ideology.

3. What are Hector and the Trojans doing to the Greek ships?

Correct Answer: A) Burning them.

4. The war that is the setting of The Illiad is the ..... war?

Correct Answer: B) Trojan.

5. Why did Achilles agree to enter the battle again?

Correct Answer: B) To avenge the death of his friend Patroclus.

6. Who originally gave Patroclus the idea to wear Achilles's armor?

Correct Answer: D) Nestor.

7. To hint at what will happen in the future.

Correct Answer: B) Foreshadow.

8. Unlike Gilgamesh, Achilles will be without human failings. True or false?

Correct Answer: A) False.

9. What bribe did Aelous take from Juno, upon agreeing that he would sink the Trojan ships?

Correct Answer: D) The loveliest nymph.

10. Who is Xanthus, and what does Achilles tell him to do?

Correct Answer: D) Achilles's horse; bring your driver safely back to the Greek camp.

11. Who tells the story of the Trojan war and to whom?

Correct Answer: C) Menelaus; Telemachus.

12. What is the difference between Greek and Roman mythology?

Correct Answer: C) The Gods have different names, but the stories are similar.

13. As the poem begins, the Trojan War has been going on for

Correct Answer: B) Nine years.

14. "The Headstrong Runner" is an example of .....

Correct Answer: C) Epithet.

15. Revenge for wrong

Correct Answer: C) Vengeance.

16. Achilles, Agamemnon, Ajax

Correct Answer: A) Greeks.

17. What does Andromache think will happen to Hector if he goes into battle?

Correct Answer: C) He will be killed.

18. How did the Greeks finally defeat the Trojans?

Correct Answer: C) By hiding in a giant horse that the Trojans thought was a gift.

19. Why did the Trojans bring the Horse inside the walls of Troy?

Correct Answer: B) They thought it was a gift from the gods.

20. Who receives the arms of Achilles according to the decision made by the soldiers of the Greek forces?

Correct Answer: C) Odysseus.