Iliad Test Study Guide

Iliad – test study guide

1. Where did Greek civilization begin? 25. Who left the fight against the Trojans, only to rejoin later? 2. Name a significant invention of the Epic Age. 26. Who is responsible for the plague sent by Apollo? 3. Athens was the first city-state to do what? 27. Who reluctantly gives up his woman? 4. Who is considered to be the first Western historian? 28. Who calls a meeting? 5. Who spread Greek culture throughout world? 29. Who is part god? 6. What convention of Homer is used at the beginning of Book I? 30. Who will not live much longer? 7. Who is quarreling in Book I? 31. Who refuses to give up his woman at first? 8. How does Apollo punish the Greeks? 32. Who prefers his slave to his wife? 9. What does Agamemnon require for the girl? 10. Who talks Achilles out of killing Agamemnon? Place the following scenes from Book I of The Iliad in the correct chronological order. 11. What does Achilles lost to Agamemnon? 12. Where does Achilles wound Hector? ____ Achilles pleads to Thetis. 13. What is Hector’s dying plea to Achilles? ____ Agamemnon calls Calchas a “visionary of hell”. 14. What does Achilles do to Hector’s body after he kills him? ____ Apollo sends a plague upon the army. 15. A character flaw of Achilles is his ____ Briseis is loath to go with Agamemnon’s men. a. strength b. weakness in battle ____ Athena pleads with Achilles to keep their battle verbal. c. anger d. misjudgment of his opponents ____ Achilles accuses Agamemnon of having an “antelope’s heart”. 16. What is the term for when the speaker asks the muses for help? ____ Achilles calls a meeting. 17. What is the term for a descriptive adjective that stands for a person? ____ Achilles informs Agamemnon that he will no longer fight for him. ____ Chryseis is returned to her father. 18. Who is the commander of the Greek army? ____ Chryses pleads to Agamemnon for his daughter’s return. 19. Who claims Briseis as his prize after giving up Chryseis? 20. Who keeps all the best spoils of war for himself? 21. Who cries to his mother, Thetis? 22. Who tells Chryses that he will do as he pleases with Chryseis? 23. Who is the mightiest warrior in the army? 24. Who is promised winnings three times as rich?