Iliad Book 22: Death of Hector Quiz

Whose shape does Athena assume to trick Hector into facing Achilles?

• his wife Andromache

• the god Apollo

• his father Priam

• his brother Deiphobus

What does Hector promise Achilles and ask him to promise in return?

• Not to attack the losing warrior's army

• Honor the loser with a royal burial

• Send the losing warrior's body back to his friends

• Offer a sacrifice to the loser's patron god/goddess

What happens to Achilles' best friend, the Greek warrior Patroclus? Why would Hector want the armor?

• Killed by Hector; takes armor because it belonged to Achilles

• Killed by Ajax; takes armor because it is shiny

• Killed by Hector; takes armor because it's Gucci

• Killed by Priam; takes armor because it belonged to Achilles

What two men are fighting?

• Prometheus and Zeus

• Zeus and Hector

• Hector and Achilles

• Achilles and Prometheus

What is Athena's special ability?

• Breathing underwater

• Shape-shifting

• Flying

• Reading minds

Where does Achilles plan to stab Hector?

• In the stomach

• In the eye

• In the heart

• In the neck

What are Achilles' two tragic flaws?

• His temper and his heel

• His heel and his mother

• His temper and his love

• His mother and his love

In the simile of the snake at its hole, who is the snake?

• Achilles

• Agamemnon

• Paris

• Hector

How is it determined that Hector will die?

• Zeus uses the scales of fate

• The gods take a vote

• The seer Calchas foretells it as his destiny

• His spear breaks in his hands

Why does Achilles finally rejoin the war?

• To avenge Patroclus's death

• To avenge Hephaestus's death

• To avenge Agamemnon's death

• To avenge Apollo's death