Black Ships Before Troy: The Story of the Iliad

The Trojan soothsayer told Hector to tell the women of Troy to do what to help the battle?

• Grab shields and swords and join the fight

• Grab bows and arrows and defend the city from atop the citadels

• Take all their most splendid jeweled robes and lay it across the knees of the sacred statue of Athene

• Gather the children and barricade themselves in safe places throughout the city of Troy

In “The High King’s Embassy” (ch. 6), Athene puts the thought into Hector’s mind that he should end the day’s fighting with another challenge of single combat. This time the lot falls to what Greek?

• Ajax

• Menelaus

• Achilles

• Agamemnon

What god stops the Greek warrior Diomedes’ charge by loosing wild thunder and lightning in front of him?

• Ares

• Aphrodite

• Athene

• Zeus

Which of Agamemnon’s counselors, the “wisest of the council,” advises that the time has come to win back Achilles at all costs?

• Sarpedon

• Dolon

• Nestor

• Patroclus

What was NOT offered by Agamemnon to Achilles as part of the “apology”?

• The return of Briseis

• Gold, horses, and slaves

• His daughter's hand in marriage

• Armor fashioned by Hephaestus himself

As chapter 7 (“The Horses of King Rhesus) opens, Diomedes offers to go a spy mission to investigate the Trojan campsite, providing he can take one man with him. Whom does he choose?

• Odysseus

• Ajax

• Patroclus

• Nestor

What prize is offered to Dolon by Hector if he can infiltrate the Greek camp and return with information about their battle plans?

• Briseis

• Horses (perhaps even Achilles')

• the Luck of Troy

• the war hammer of Diomedes

Whose horses are stolen following the death of their owner and his bodyguards?

• Hector

• Sarpedon

• Priam

• Rhesus

What Trojan “warrior” looses an arrow from the fringes of the battle that is described in “Red Rain” (ch. 9)?

• Hector

• Paris

• Machaon

• Eurypolus

As the Greek heroes begin to lose the great battle described in “Red Rain,” under what other captain does Nestor ask that Achilles’ Myrmidons be sent out into the raging battle?

• Machaon

• Hercules

• Odysseus

• Patroclus