Death/Fate
Miscellaneous
Hector
Taunts/Weaponry
Importance
100

Without checking the text, which Book is titled The Death of Hector?

What is Book Twenty-two

100

Who was called the Swift Runner?

Who is Achilles

100

How many times did Achilles chase Hector around Troy?

What is Four times

Book 22

100

Why was Achilles's armor invincible?

What is Hephaestus made it.

100

What is the importance of mentioning when someone tears their hair out as a sign of grief?

What is hair is a natural crown of sorts and was associated with glory. The tearing or cutting of it is a sign of sacrificing one's glory in respect of whatever the occasion may be.

Heroes of the City of Man

200

What was done with Priam's son's after they were taken from him?

What is they were killed or sold as slaves.


200

Who was called the Giant-Killer?

Who is Hermes


Book 24

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200

Who escorted Priam to the Argive camp to ransom Hector's body?

Who is Hermes

Book 24

200

What was so special about Achilles's Pelian Ash spear?

What is Only he could hoist it due to its weight

200
Who was Deiphobus?
Hectors Brother
300
What Happened When Apollo reached the springs the fourth time?
Father Zeus stretched out his golden scales and placed them on two agonizing deaths, Achilles and Hector.
300

Who gave Antilochus advice for the chariot race?

Who is His father, Nestor

300

How did Hector know his time had come?

What is When he shouted to Deiphobus for a lance and he was nowhere to be found.

Book 22

300

When Achiles was chasing Apollo instead of attacking the retreating Trojans, how did Apollo reveal his true identity?

What is "Now Apollo turned to taunt Achilles: "Why are you chasing me? Why waste your speed?- Son of Peleus, you a mortal and I a deathless god. You still don't know that I'm immortal, do you?"

Book 22

300
Which of the following characters do not engage in one-on-one combat with each other in the poem?
Priam and Agamemnon
400

What did Priam claim to be the "cruelest sight in all our wretched lives!"

What is When an old man's killed and the go dogs go at the gray head and the gray beard...

Book 22

400

What were the prizes for the chariot race?

What is "A woman to lead away, flawless, skilled in crafts, and a two-eared tripod, twenty-two measures deep- all that for the first prize. Then for the runner-up he brought forth a mare, unbroken, six years old, with a mule foal in her womb. For the third he produced a fine four-measure cauldron never scorched by flames, its sheen as bright as new. For the fourth he set out two gold bars, for the fifth, untouched by fire as well, a good two-handled jar."

400

Who did the gods urge to steal Hector's body?

Who is Hermes

Book 24

400

Who knocked the whip from Diomedes hand during the chariot race?

Who is Apollo

400
What did the female slaves do after they bathed Hectors Body?
Anointed him with oil, wrapped him within a beautiful robe and placed him on a pallet.
500

What did Andromache compare her sons fate to?

What is Food

500

Who boxed in the funeral games?

Who are Euryalus and Epeus

500

Why did Hera value Achilles over Hector?

What is Because Hector was mortal but Achilles came from a goddess

Book 24

500

How would Achilles shame Hector's body in the Argive camp?

What is "Then he'd yoke his racing team to the chariot-harness, lash the corpse of Hector behind the car for dragging and haul him three times round the dead Patroclus' tomb, and then he'd rest again in his tents and leave the body sprawled in the dust."

Book 24

500

Why did Patroclus visit Achilles as a ghost?

What is To be buried so he could go to Hades