The Iliad Book 1

The Iliad was written by

• Hector

• Horace

• Homer

• Herodotus

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The title Iliad comes from "Ilium," which is another word for

• Greece

• Troy

• War

• Honor

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The Iliad was composed in the

• 12th century B.C.

• 8th century B.C.

• 4th century B.C.

• 2nd century A.D.

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Expressions like "the swift runner Achilles," "blazing-eyed Athena," and "Hector breaker of horses" are examples of

• epic similes

• in media res

• invocation

• Homeric epithets

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King of Sparta, brother of Agamemnon

• Menelaus

• Atreus

• Hector

• Priam

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Which gods are not on the side of the Greeks?

• Athena

• Apollo

• Hera

• Artemis

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Achilles asks his sea-goddess mother to ask Zeus to turn the tide of the war against the Greeks.

• True

• False

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