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