Iliad Quiz

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1. The Iliad is attributed to which ancient Greek poet?

   1. Homer
   2. Pindar
   3. Sappho
   4. Hesiod
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   Answer: Homer

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2. In what meter is the Iliad composed?

   1. Dactylic hexameter
   2. Elegiac couplets
   3. Alcaic strophe
   4. Iambic trimeter
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   Answer: Dactylic hexameter

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3. Troy is also known by which other name?

   1. Argos
   2. Mycenae
   3. Ilium
   4. Sparta
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   Answer: Ilium

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4. Who abducted Helen of Troy, instigating the war?

   1. Deiphobus
   2. Aeneas
   3. Hector
   4. Paris
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   Answer: Paris

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5. What is the name of Achilles' war prize that Agamemnon demands?

   1. Andromache
   2. Briseis
   3. Chryseis
   4. Helen
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   Answer: Briseis

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6. Who killed Patroclus in battle?

   1. Sarpedon
   2. Aeneas
   3. Hector
   4. Paris
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   Answer: Hector

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7. In which work is the story of the Trojan Horse told?

   1. The Little Iliad
   2. The Cypria
   3. Homer's Odyssey
   4. Virgil's Aeneid
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   Answer: Virgil's Aeneid

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8. Who is the commander of the Greek forces in the Iliad?

   1. Agamemnon
   2. Odysseus
   3. Nestor
   4. Menelaus
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   Answer: Agamemnon

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