Download History of the Ancient and Medieval World Black Ships Before Troy

History of the Ancient and
Medieval World
Black Ships Before Troy
Test Yourself!
Walsingham Academy
Mrs. McArthur
Room 111
Black Ships Before Troy
Baseline Knowledge Check: Tues. Oct. 11
It’s open book! (45 min.)
– 5 short answer questions
– 4 quotes to identify
Suggestion: Practice with these chronologically
organized questions.
Chapters 1-4
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 1-4: answers
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 5-8
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 5-8 : answers
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 9-13
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 9-13 : answers
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 14-19
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 14-19 : answers
1.
2.
3.
4.
Helen
Slay Achilles
Paris / Apollo
Epeius, the best carpenter in all the warhost.
Who are they?
Helen
Hector
Menelaus
Priam
Achilles
Paris
Achilles
Penthesilea
Ajax
Odysseus
Nestor
Philoctetes
Patroclus
Andromache
Chryseis/Briseis