Deck 21: The Fall of Troy and Its Aftermath

Question 1

Which of the following came to assist the Trojans after Hector's death?

A) Neoptolemus
B) Medus
C) Penthesilea
D) Nisus

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Who won the contest for the armor of Achilles?

A) Odysseus
B) Ajax
C) Agamemnon
D) Diomedes

Answer 2

A

Question 3

Who is Achilles' son?

A) Lesser Ajax
B) Orestes
C) Demodocus
D) Neoptolemus

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Who shot and killed Paris?

A) Philoctetes
B) Neoptolemus
C) Lesser Ajax
D) Odysseus

Question 5

The Trojan priest _______ suspected that the wooden horse contained Greek soldiers.

A) Chryses
B) Helenus
C) Laocoön
D) Antenor

Question 6

Euripides' play _______, produced in 415 BC after the Athenians had killed all the male inhabitants of Melos, may be read as an antiwar pay.

A) Ion
B) Agamemnon
C) The Trojan Women
D) Priam

Question 7

How did Helen save herself when Menelaüs was about to kill her?

A) She put their child between her and Menelaüs
B) She revealed to him where Priam's secret treasure room was located
C) She told him that she never actually slept with Paris
D) She bared her breasts to him

Question 8

At the command of Odysseus, _______ was thrown from the walls of Troy.

A) Astyanax
B) Antenor
C) the wooden horse
D) the body of Priam

Question 9

Who conducted excavations at Hissarlik in the 1870s in order to prove his longstanding conviction that the Trojan War was an actual historical event?

A) Carl Blegen
B) Manfred Korfmann
C) Heinrich Schliemann
D) Indiana Jones

Question 10

Carl Blegen's final report on his work at Troy concluded that the _______ citadel yielded the necessary evidence to support an identification "as the Troy of Priam and Homer."

A) Troy I
B) Troy VII
C) Troy II
D) Troy XII

Question 11

The _______ reference to the Ahhiyawa must be the Greek Achaioi, or Achaeans.

A) Hittite
B) Egyptian
C) Persian
D) Phoenician

Question 12

Aeschylus' dramatic trilogy from 458 BC, the _______, recounts the saga of murder, vengeance, and justice that begins with Agamemnon's return from Troy.

A) Return of the King
B) Nostoi
C) Argolid
D) Oresteia

Question 13

Whom does Agamemnon bring home with him from Troy as his mistress and "prize"?

A) Hecabê
B) Andromache
C) Cassandra
D) Briseis

Question 14

What does Clytemnestra claim as her motive for the murder of Agamemnon?

A) Agamemnon's abandonment of their family for ten years
B) Agamemnon's sacrifice of their daughter Iphigenia
C) Agamemnon's cold reaction to her upon his arrival at the palace
D) The senseless death of their son in the last year of the war at Troy

Question 15

Which of the following surround Orestes after he murders his mother, and begin to drive him mad?

A) Hera and Aphrodite
B) The ghosts of the Trojan war-dead
C) The spirits of his ancestors in the House of Atreus
D) The Furies

Question 16

Apollo orders Orestes to go to _______ to seek justice.

A) the underworld
B) Athens
C) Mt. Olympus
D) Thebes

Question 17

Where is Orestes' trial by jury take place?

A) The Pnyx
B) The agora ("marketplace")
C) The Areopagus
D) At the oracle of Apollo in Delphi

Question 18

What is the result of Orestes' trial by jury?

A) The jury is evenly split, and Zeus casts the deciding vote
B) The jury convicts him
C) The jury acquits him
D) The jury is evenly split, and Athena casts the deciding vote

Question 19

Whom does Orestes eventually marry?

A) Aretê
B) Andromache
C) Helen
D) Hermionê

Question 20

Which of the following statements about the fifth-century BC Athenian lawcourts?

A) The laws themselves were treated as divinely willed
B) There were no lawyers to present definitive interpretations of the law
C) Defendants had to represent themselves in court
D) When a woman was charged with a crime, a man would speak on her behalf

Question 21

Who is represented in the center (flanked by his sons) of this sculptural group?

A) Neoptolemus
B) Orestes
C) Priam
D) Laocoön