1. What does Chryses want Agamemnon to do?
a. Build a sculpture of him
b. Return his daughter
c. Compensate his family for the war
d. Award him a position in the Achaean army
Correct Answer: b
2. How does Apollo react to Chryses’ prayers for help?
a. He kills Agamemnon.
b. He sets a plague on the Greeks.
c. He refuses to take sides.
d. He asks Zeus for his advice.
Correct Answer: b
3. What does Agamemnon demand in exchange for returning Chryseis?
a. That Achilles take his place in battle
b. That Apollo punish the Trojans directly
c. That Chryses be publicly executed
d. That he get Achilles’ bride Briseis
Correct Answer: d
4. What favor does Achilles ask of his mother?
a. Rescue him from the Achaean army
b. Stay out of his plans regarding his future
c. Ask Zeus for revenge on the Achaean army
d. Help him get his bride back from Agamemnon
Correct Answer: c
5. Why is Zeus reluctant to punish the Achaeans?
a. Because he admires Agamemnon
b. Because his wife favors the Greeks
c. Because he favors the Greeks
d. Because he does not want to get involved
Correct Answer: b
6. The book opens during what year of the Trojan War?
a. The first year.
b. The eleventh year.
c. The fifth year.
d. The tenth year.
Correct Answer: d
7. Who is the priest that Achilles calls upon to see what must be done to appease Apollo?
a. Aias.
b. Calchas.
c. Agamemnon.
d. Chryses.
Correct Answer: b
8. Who are the two beautiful women that are captured as war prizes?
a. Atheanna and Kristianna.
b. Chryseis and Briseis.
c. Olysis and Banalis.
d. Charmis and Braeisis.
Correct Answer: b
9. Who was the mortal man responsible for the plague against the army?
a. Agamemnon.
b. Odysseus.
c. Achilles.
d. Chratheus.
Correct Answer: a
10. Who calls Agamemnon greedy for profit and shameless?
a. Odysseus.
b. Nestor.
c. Achilles.
d. Aias.
Correct Answer: c
11. Who stops Achilles from killing Agamemnon?
a. Helena.
b. Hera.
c. Athena.
d. Aphrodite.
Correct Answer: c
12. Who is the wise leader from Pylos who tries to stop Achilles and Agamemnon from arguing?
a. Nestor.
b. Darius.
c. Nathan.
d. Pylosies.
Correct Answer: a
13. Who is Achilles’ mother?
a. Thallia.
b. Hera.
c. Thetis.
d. Helen.
Correct Answer: c
14. Who accompanies Chryseis back home?
a. Odysseus.
b. Achilles.
c. Aias.
d. Talthybios.
Correct Answer: a
15. What is Thetis?
a. Mortal.
b. Goddess.
c. Sea nymph.
d. Demi-goddess.
Correct Answer: c
16. The iliad is written by.
a. Spencer
b. Byron
c. Homer
d. Milton
Correct Answer: c
17. Who sends the plague to the Achaean camp near the beginning of The Iliad?
a. Hera
b. Moses
c. Apollo
d. Zeus
Correct Answer: c
18. When is The Iliad thought to have been composed?
a. The twelfth century b.c.
b. The fifteenth century b.c.
c. The third century b.c.
d. The eighth century b.c.
Correct Answer: d
19. With what weapon does Ajax knock Hector unconscious?
a. A boulder
b. A wooden club
c. A spear
d. His astonishing good looks
Correct Answer: a
20. Which character is Helen’s brother-in-law?
a. Achilles
b. Agamemnon
c. Agenor
d. Hector
Correct Answer: b
21. How long has the Trojan War been going by the time The Iliad begins?
a. One week
b. The poem begins with the beginning of the war.
c. Nine years
d. Eight months
Correct Answer: c
22. Who wrote the Homeric Hymn to apollo?
a. Milton
b. Pope
c. Cynaethus Chios
d. Pamphos
Correct Answer: c
23. How many Homeric Hymns are there?
a. 33
b. 34
c. 35
d. 36
Correct Answer: a
24. What bad things has Aphrodite done?
a. lie
b. wrath
c. envy
d. Sexual crimes
Correct Answer: d
25. Who killed Aphrodite?
a. Eagle
b. Wild Boar
c. Lion
d. Elephant
Correct Answer: b
26. What does Oedipus accuse Creon of?
a. Military crimes
b. Theft
c. Cruelty
d. Usurping the throne
Correct Answer: d
27. How does Oedipus blind himself?
a. Acid
b. With his fingers
c. With a point of his crown
d. With the pin of Jocasta’s brooch
Correct Answer: d
28. To end the plague, whose murder must be avenged?
a. Polynice’s
b. Laius’s
c. Oedipus’s
d. Creon’s
Correct Answer: b
29. Which of the following is not something Tiresias says Oedipus will discover?
a. He is the killer of his father
b. He is both prince and pauper
c. He is both son and husband to the same woman
d. He is both father and brother to his sons
Correct Answer: b
30. Whom does Oedipus erroneously believe is his father?
a. Polybos
b. Laius
c. Ajax
d. Creon
Correct Answer: a
31. How does Jocasta react to the news about Oedipus?
a. Is unfazed as she already knew
b. Commits suicide
c. Flees
d. Faints
Correct Answer: b
32. Thebes has fallen under the curse of:
a. Prius
b. Creon
c. The Sphinx
d. Antigone
Correct Answer: c
33. Who is Oedipus’s mother?
a. Jocasta
b. Cleopatra
c. Antigone
d. Ismene
Correct Answer: a
34. What does Oedipus do to his father?
a. Exiles him
b. Tortures him
c. Imprisons him
d. Kills him
Correct Answer: d
35. What reason does the shepherd give for taking Oedipus?
a. To collect ransom
b. To avoid his fate
c. He wanted a son
d. He was not in his right mind
Correct Answer: b
36. Rex mean___.
a. Prince
b. Princes
c. King
d. Queen
Correct Answer: c
37. How many childrens does Oedipus have?
a. 3
b. 4
c. 5
d. 6
Correct Answer: a
38. What does the name ‘Oedipus’ mean?
a. King of thebes
b. Blinded by fate
c. Swollen foot
d. Incest monger
Correct Answer: c
39. In what country was Oedipus raised?
a. Athens
b. Corinth
c. Thebes
d. Colonus
Correct Answer: b
40. What is creon’s relationship to Jocasta?
a. Son
b. Uncle
c. Brother
d. Father
Correct Answer: c
41. At the start of Agamemnon, a Watchman is awaiting a signal announcing the fall of which city?
a. Rome
b. Cyprus
c. Troy
d. Athens
Correct Answer: c
42. Where is Agamemnon set?
a. A battlefield near Troy
b. The Athetian courthouse
c. mount Olympus
d. The palace at Argos
Correct Answer: d
43. Who kills Cassandra?
a. Aegisthus
b. Clytemnestra
c. Orestes
d. Cassandra
Correct Answer: b
44. Whose return is prophesized by the Chorus in the final moments of the play?
a. Orestes
b. Cassandra
c. Aegisthus
d. Agamemnon
Correct Answer: a
45. At the end of the play, which of the following characters is NOT dead?
a. Iphigenia
b. Clytemnestra
c. Agamemnon
d. Cassandra
Correct Answer: b
46. Who is revealed to have sacrificed his daughter to obtain a favorable wind for his fleet?
a. Agamemnon
b. Menelaus
c. Aegisthus
d. The Herald
Correct Answer: a
47. The Chorus is made up of elder citizens from ___.
a. Argos
b. Troy
c. Athens
d. Sparta
Correct Answer: a
48. Before her capture, Cassandra was the lover of which Greek god?
a. Apollo
b. Zeus
c. Ares
d. Bacchus
Correct Answer: a
49. Which character provides vivid descriptions of the war against Troy?
a. The Herald
b. Cassandra
c. Agamemnon
d. Menelaus
Correct Answer: a
50. Who advises Clytemnestra in Agamemnon’s absence?
a. Iphigenia
b. The Watchman
c. Menelaus
d. The Chorus
Correct Answer: d