Deck 20: The Trojan War

Question 1

The kings who led the Greek expedition to Troy came from the ______.

A) rival cities of Athens and Sparta
B) House of Cadmus
C) island of Aegina
D) House of Atreus

Answer 1

D

Question 2

What sort of contest does Oenomaüs arrange for the hand of his daughter Hippodamia?

A) An archery contest
B) A chariot race
C) A footrace
D) A duel to the death with Oenomaüs himself

Answer 2

B

Question 3

What does the name of the land Peloponnesus mean?

A) "Pelops' gift"
B) "Victory of Pelops"
C) "Pelops' kingdom"
D) "Island of Pelops"

Answer 3

D

Question 4

When Thyestes goes to the oracle at Delphi to find out how to settle the score with Atreus, what does he learn?

A) That he must sacrifice his own son
B) That he should seek allies in Sparta
C) That he will only defeat Atreus by killing their father
D) That he must beget a child by his daughter Pelopia

Question 5

Aegisthus is actually the son of _______.

A) Thyestes and Pelopia
B) Atreus and Pelopia
C) Atreus and Aëropê
D) Thyestes and Aëropê

Question 6

Which of the following are true of the Dioscuri, Castor and Polydeuces?

A) Polydeuces gave up half his immortality to Castor
B) In Greek religion, the Dioscuri were protectors of sailors in distress
C) To the Romans, the Dioscuri were protectors of the Roman state
D) Castor killed Polydeuces in a hunting accident

Question 7

The Myrmidons were created when Zeus turned the _______ of Aegina into people.

A) hawks
B) ants
C) olives
D) wolves

Question 8

What is Paris' other name, given to him after he single-handedly defeats a band of robbers?

A) Alexander
B) Aeacus
C) Telegonus
D) Philippos

Question 9

Which three goddesses appear before Paris in the Judgment of Paris?

A) Athena
B) Aphrodite
C) Artemis
D) Hera

Question 10

Who exposes the deception of Odysseus when Odysseus is trying to avoid going to fight in the Trojan War?

A) Achilles
B) Philoctetes
C) Agamemnon
D) Palamedes

Question 11

How did Thetis try to prevent Achilles from joining the Trojan War?

A) By rendering him invisible when the leaders of the war came looking for him
B) By hiding him among women on the island of Scyros
C) By hiding all his armor and weapons
D) By keeping him hidden away in her undersea cavern

Question 12

In order to save the expedition to Troy, Agamemnon had to sacrifice _______.

A) Polyxena
B) Clytemnestra
C) Electra
D) Iphigenia

Question 13

Which Greek hero was bitten by a snake and then abandoned on the island of Lemnos?

A) Idomeneus
B) Diomedes
C) Philoctetes
D) Protesilaüs

Question 14

The lliad begins when the priest Chryses comes to the Greek camp to _______.

A) offer Apollo's protection during a plague
B) accuse Agamemnon of treachery
C) announce the terms of a peace treaty with the Trojans
D) ransom his daughter

Question 15

Agamemnon seizes _______ from Achilles, prompting Achilles to sit out the war.

A) Chryseïs
B) Andromachê
C) Briseïs
D) Hecabê

Question 16

Which of the following are members of Hector's family?

A) Astyanax
B) Chryseïs
C) Andromachê
D) Leda

Question 17

Who kills Patroclus?

A) Achilles
B) Sarpedon
C) Hector
D) Paris

Question 18

What does Hector do when he sees Achilles coming after him?

A) He flees to an altar of Zeus for protection and refuses to fight
B) He taunts him and circles him in his chariot
C) He turns and runs three times around the walls of Troy before making his stand
D) He runs inside the gates of Troy, and Achilles follows him inside

Question 19

Who travels into the Greek camp to ransom Hector's body?

A) Priam
B) Paris
C) Andromachê
D) Helen

Question 20

The Iliad is formally the story of _______.

A) the fall and sack of Troy
B) how Helen was returned to Menelaüs
C) the entire Trojan War
D) the anger of Achilles

Question 21

Who is shown here kissing a swan?

A) Clytemnestra
B) Leda
C) Helen
D) Hecabê