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