History of the Ancient and Medieval World

Black Ships Before TroyTest Yourself!

History of the Ancient and Medieval World

Black Ships Before TroyTest Yourself!

Walsingham Academy

Mrs. McArthur

Room 111

Black Ships Before TroyBaseline Knowledge Check: Oct. 7

Black Ships Before TroyBaseline Knowledge Check: Oct. 7

It’s open book! (45 min.)– 5 short answer questions– 4 quotes to identify

Suggestion: Practice with these chronologically organized questions.

1. What did Helen leave behind when she departed with Paris?

2. Who tricked Achilles out of hiding? How?

3. Who was Hector?

4. Who shouted a challenge to the Greek lines for any warrior to meet him in single combat?

Chapters 1-4Chapters 1-4

1. Helen left her lord, her babe and her honor.

2. Odysseus

3. The Trojan war-leader and foremost of the king’s sons.

4. Paris

Chapters 1-4: answersChapters 1-4: answers

1. Why did Hector’s baby shrink back from him?

2. “________ is the work for ________”

3. When did Achilles say he would fight?

4. When they came to the Thracian camp, what did Odysseus and his men find?

5. Where was Paris when he loosed an arrow at Diomedes?

Chapters 5-8Chapters 5-8

1. He was frightened by the great bronze helmet with its nodding horsehair crest.

2. “War is the work for and (men) (Hector)3. When great Hector sweeps the Trojan charge

right to the prows of my black galleys.4. No watch set, and the warriors sleeping

deeply. King Rhesus was in their midst beside his chariot with the twelve hearth companions of his bodyguard all about him.

5. Keeping, as usual, to the fringe of the battle.

Chapters 5-8 : answersChapters 5-8 : answers

1. What omen did Hector tell his men was best of all?

2. What did Zeus do, as he was angry for the death of the lord of the Lycians?

3. To whom did Thetis go to get new armor for Achilles?

4. Why was there no sleep for Achilles after the feasting following the funeral games?

Chapters 9-13Chapters 9-13

1. To fight for your country.

2. He put the battle rage into Patroclus so that he forgot all things else.

3. Hephaestus, lord of all armorers.

4. He wept for Patroclus and the loss of all that they had known and shared together.

Chapters 9-13 : answersChapters 9-13 : answers

1. Who was the only person to recognize the beggar in the temple as Odysseus?

2. When Penthesilea received the gift of the sword from Priam, what did she swear she would do with it?

3. Who shot the arrow that struck Achilles’ ankle? Who guided the arrow to its target?

4. Who was “the horse builder?”

Chapters 14-19Chapters 14-19

1. Helen

2. Slay Achilles

3. Paris / Apollo

4. Sinon

Chapters 14-19 : answersChapters 14-19 : answers

Who are they?Who are they?

Helen Hector Menelaus

Priam Achilles Paris

Achilles Penthesilea Ajax

Odysseus Nestor Philoctetes

Patroclus Andromache Chryseis/Briseis