Chapter 1-5
What goddess was NOT invited to the wedding feast of Peleus and Thetis because she seemed to cause discord everywhere she went?
Eris
What fateful marriage takes place across the Aegean Sea while Paris is choosing which goddess gets the apple?
Menelaus and Helen
On whom does Achilles call when Agamemnon takes Briseis away from him, asking that Zeus be called on to intervene on his behalf?
Thetis, his mom
In “The High King’s Embassy” (ch. 6), Athene puts the thought into Hector’s mind that he should end the day’s fighting with another challenge of single combat. This time the lot falls to what Greek?
Ajax
What prize is offered to Dolon by Hector if he can infiltrate the Greek camp and return with information about their battle plans?
Horses (perhaps even Achilles’)
On what golden object were the words “To the fairest” inscribed?
Apple
Which of the great war-leaders of Greece did not respond to Agamemnon’s call to meet at Aulis and sail for Troy?
Achilles
The fourth chapter of Black Ships Before Troy is entitled “Single Combat.” What two warriors face off for this “Single Combat”?
Paris and Menelaus
What god stops the Greek warrior Diomedes’ charge by loosing wild thunder and lightning in front of him?
Zeus
Whose horses are stolen following the death of their owner and his bodyguards?
Rhesus
What three goddesses claimed the title of the “fairest”?
Aphrodite, Athena (Athene), and Hera
The son of Peleus and Thetis was dipped into the river Styx, making him immortal save for what part of his body?
Ankle
Who loses the one-on-one combat battle, what goddess intervenes to save him, and by what method is this save made?
Paris, Aphrodite, cloak of invisibility
Which of Agamemnon’s counselors, the “wisest of the council,” advises that the time has come to win back Achilles at all costs?
Nestor
What Trojan “warrior” looses an arrow from the fringes of the battle that is described in “Red Rain”?
Paris
What last son of Priam and Hecuba was prophesied to be a “firebrand” who would bring destruction to Troy?
Paris
What man devises and executes the plan to determine which of King Lycomedes’ daughters is not a woman at all?
Odysseus
As the battle rages just outside the gates of the city of Troy, a soothsayers bids Hector to leave command of the Trojan troops to Aeneas and bid his mother and her women to pray to what goddess for mercy?
Athene
What was NOT offered by Agamemnon to Achilles as part of the “apology”? A. The return of Briseis B. Gold, horses, and slaves C. His daughter’s hand in marriage D. Armor fashioned by Hephaestus himself
Armor
As the Greek heroes begin to lose the great battle described in “Red Rain,” under what other captain does Nestor ask that Achilles’ Myrmidons be sent out into the raging battle?
Patroclus
To which goddess was the title of the “fairest” eventually given and why?
Aphrodite for pledging to give the judge the most beautiful woman in the world
Chryseis’, war prize of Agamemnon, was the daughter of a Trojan priest of what god?
Apollo
Upon entering Paris and Helen’s chamber, Hector finds Paris “fussing over his armor.” What simile is used to describe how Paris is acting in this scene? He is . . .
acting “like a girl making ready for a party.”
As chapter 7 (“The Horses of King Rhesus) opens, Diomedes offers to go a spy mission to investigate the Trojan campsite, providing he can take one man with him. Whom does he choose?
Odysseus
In chapter 9, “Battle for the Ships,” the Trojans receive an ill omen from Zeus in the form of an eagle dropping a live snake in their midst. Some among the Trojans want to postpone the battle as a result, but Hector tells them that the best omen of all is what?
"To fight for your country"