The ILIAD: Questions 65 points

What is your FIRST name?

What is your LAST name?

What is your Intensive Reading class period?

• Period 1
• Period 2
• Period 4
• Period 6
• Period 7

1. “Most noble son of Atreus, covetous beyond all mankind, how shall the Achaeans find you another prize? We have no common store from which to take one. Those we took from the cities have been awarded; we cannot disallow the awards that have been made already.

• A.Atreus was the most covetous person in history.
• B. Agamemnon is extremely greedy.
• C. He thinks that Agamemnon is right in his desires.
• D. He covets the wealth of Agamemnon.

2. a. What best describes Achilles’s attitude toward the Trojans?

• A. hatred
• B. anger
• C. jealousy
• D. indifference

2. b. Which of the following line(s) from the literary work best supports the correct answer to the previous question?

• A. ‘“I came not warring here for any ill the Trojans had done me. I have no quarrel with them. They have not raided my cattle nor my horses, nor cut down my harvests on the rich plains of Phthia”’
• B. ‘“Never when the Achaeans sack any rich city of the Trojans do I receive so good a prize as you do, though it is my hands that do the better part of the fighting.”’
• C. ‘“Wine-bibber,” he cried, “with the face of a dog and the heart of a hind, you never dare to go out with the host in fight, nor yet with our chosen men in ambuscade.”’
• D. ‘“In the day of your distress, when your men fall dying by the murderous hand of Hector, you shall not know how to help them, and shall rend your heart with rage for the hour when you offered insult to the bravest of the Achaeans.”’

3. The excerpt is told mainly in the__________ tense, from a_____________ point of view.

• A. past; first-person
• B. past; third-person
• C. present; first-person
• D. present; third-person

4. a. Daughter of a priest of Apollo

• Chryseis
• Minerva
• Agamemnon
• Achilles

4. b. Goddess who intervenes to save Agamemnon

• Chryseis
• Minerva
• Agamemnon
• Achilles

4. c. Leader of the Greek armies in Trojan War.

• Chryseis
• Minerva
• Agamemnon
• Achilles