Latin I: Trojan War Trivia

At the wedding of Peleus and Thetis (the parents of the future Achilles), which goddess rolled in an apple that said on it "to the fairest of them all"?

• Eris, goddess of discord

• Venus/Aphrodite, goddess of love

• Vesta, goddess of the home/hearth

• Diana, goddess of animals/hunting

This Trojan prince was tasked with deciding which goddess was truly, "the fairest of them all"

• Hector

• Paris

• Priam

• Aeneas

During the "Judgment of Paris," three goddesses competed for the title of "fairest of them all". Which goddess did NOT compete?

• Venus/Aphrodite

• Minerva/Athena

• Diana/Artemis

• Juno/Hera

Because she offered a gift/prize of ________, Venus won the "Judgment of Paris"

• wisdom/strategy in war

• power/sovereignty

• Helen

• prowess in hunting

Paris stole Helen from her husband, the Greek prince named ______.

• Menelaus

• Agamemnon

• Achilles

• Patroclus

In order to gain favorable winds that would allow the Greek soldiers to set sail to Troy from Greece, Agamemnon, the Greek leader, had to do which of the following actions?

• sacrifice his daughter

• sacrifice his wife

• kill one of the Greek soldiers

• kill a Trojan soldier

_____________, a Greek, wanted to "avoid the draft;" that is, he didn't want to have to go fight in the Trojan War. Therefore, he pretended to be insane so that his fellow Greeks wouldn't want him to fight with them.

• Achilles

• Odysseus

• Agamemnon

• Menelaus

_____________, a Greek, wanted to "avoid the draft;" that is, he didn't want to have to go fight in the Trojan War. Therefore, he pretended to be a woman so that his fellow Greeks wouldn't be able to find him and recruit him.

• Achilles

• Odysseus

• Agamemnon

• Odysseus

It is said that the Greeks and Trojans fought for ______ years, with both sides losing many soldiers.

• three

• five

• seven

• ten

Finally, in the tenth year of battle, things changed. When Agamemnon refused to return a war prize, a priestess named Chryseis, to her father, this god sent a plague on the Greeks.

• Ares/Mars

• Hermes/Mercury

• Zeus/Jupiter

• Apollo