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Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
In 1868, the German archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann met Frank Calvert, who convinced Schliemann that Troy was a real city at what is now ________.
Isreal
Turkey
Syria
Greece
Those who believe that the stories of the Trojan War are derived from a specific historical conflict usually date it to the ______century.
12th or 11th BC
1st or 2nd BC
8th or 9th BC
20th or 21st AD
Who decided the winner of a beauty contest between Hera, Athena, and Aphrodite?
Odysseus
Paris
Zeus
Nobody, each person was scared to make the gods mad
Thetis bathed Achilles in the ________, the river that runs to the underworld, making him invulnerable wherever he was touched by the water. Because she had held him by the heel, it was not immersed during the bathing and thus the heel remained mortal and vulnerable to injury (hence the expression "Achilles heel" for an isolated weakness).
Styx
Nile
Amazon
Black
Before Helen could look up to see him enter the palace, she was shot with an arrow from Eros, otherwise known as _______, and fell in love with Paris when she saw him, as promised by Aphrodite.
Zeus
Odysseus
Cupid
Menelaus
How did Odysseus trick the Trojans and enter the city?
with a wooden horse
by putting a baby at the gate
with a fake treaty
Laocoön warned the Tojans against keeping the Trojan horse. _______ then came out of the sea and devoured Laocoön. The Trojans decided to keep the horse
sharks
killer whales
Serpents
electric eels
The Greeks dedicate this thank-offering ( the HORSE) to ______ for their return home.
Apollo
Zeus
Athena
Achilles
Which word is incorrect?
In Roman mythology, the Trojan War was waged against the city of Troy by the Greeks after Paris of Troy took Helen from her husband Menelaus, king of Sparta.
Paris of Troy should be Odysseus of Ithaca
Roman should be Greek
Menelaus should be Agamemnon
In exchange for Paris picking Aphrodite as the winner of the golden apple, Aphrodite ____________.
allowed the Greeks to win the war
allowed Helen to fall in love with Paris
allowed Paris to become king of Troy
