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The Trojan War
What do you know about the war that is one of the most important events in Greek mythology and has been narrated through many works of Greek literature?
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1. Which author is typically credited for assembling stories from the Trojan War?
Ovid
Aesop
Homer
Sophocles
2. Who is the author of the Aeneid, which contains what many consider to be the best known account of the sacking of Troy?
Socrates
Sappho
Pliny the Elder
Virgil
3. When did the Trojan War supposedly start?
1260 BC
453 AD
235 BC
820 BC
4. Whose wedding begins the whole set of events of the Trojan war?
Theseus and Ariadne
Achilles and Briseis
Zeus and Hera
Peleus and Thetis
5. Who was the king of Troy during the Trojan War?
Agamemnon
Alcaeus
Priam
Odysseus
6. Who was the principal wife of the king of Troy during the Trojan War?
Cassandra
Andromeda
Hecuba
Clytemnestra
7. Who was said to be a huge reason of the start of the Trojan War?
Paris
Zeus
Helen
Achilles
8. What is the name of the king of Sparta, whose wife fled Sparta with the son of the king of Troy?
Priam
Odysseus
Menelaus
Agamemnon
9. Who was the leader of the Greek forces in the Trojan war?
Odysseus
Agamemnon
Achilles
Perseus
10. Troy withstood a Greek siege for how many years?
19
8
10
12
11. Who was Troy’s finest warrior, who was killed by Achilles?
Ajax
Hercules
Hector
Paris
12. Which god guided Paris’s arrow to strike Achilles’ only vulnerable point, his heel, and eventually kill him?
Apollo
Aphrodite
Ares
Athena
13. In which modern country is the ancient city of Troy located?
Turkey
Lebanon
Greece
Israel
14. What happened to the women after the Greeks attacked?
They became slaves
They were forced to marry the Greeks
They became sirens
They were killed
15. There were three goddesses who wished to be named the most beautiful. Which was not among them?
Aurora
Hera
Athena
Aphrodite
16. Who came up with the idea for the Trojan horse that helped the Greeks defeat the Trojans in the Trojan War?
Achilles
Menelaus
Odysseus
Hercules
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