Iliad 1-5 Quiz

The goddess Eris threw a golden apple into the wedding of Peleus and Thetis.

• true
• False: Pear
• False: Peach
• False: Apricot

The Trojan prince Paris judged Athena as being the most beautiful.

• False: Aphrodite
• true
• False: Hera
• False: Hestia

Paris was granted the right to wed Helen, the wife of Agamemnon.

• False: Menelaus
• true
• False: Achilles
• False: Diomedes

Calchas, a priest of Hermes, asked Agamemnon to return his daughter Chryseis.

• False: Apollo
• true
• False: Zeus
• False: Poseidon

A plague of arrows fell upon the Greeks for three days.

• False: nine
• true
• False: five
• False: seven

The seer Calchas explained to the other Greeks why a plague had befallen them.

• true
• False: Cassandra
• False: Pythia
• False: Helenus

Agamemnon demanded Briseis, the war-prize of Calchas, as the condition of returning Briseis to her father.

• False: Achilles
• true
• False: Peleus
• False: Aeneas

The goddess Hera persuaded Achilles not to attack Agamemnon during the Greek assembly.

• False: Athena
• true
• False: Aphrodite
• False: Iris

Zeus sent a dream to Menelaus in order to persuade him to encourage the other Greeks to resume battle.

• False: Agamemnon
• true
• False: Achilles
• False: Nestor

At the beginning of Book 3, Paris and Menelaus were supposed to be fighting a duel.

• true
• False: Paris and Agamemnon
• False: Aeneas and Menelaus
• False: Priam and Nestor