ILIAD BOOKS 1 2 QUOTES EXAM QUESTIONS

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-Guarantee passing score -27 Questions and Answers -format set of multiple-choice -Expert-Verified Explanation Question 1: "Zeus, Father Zeus! If I ever served you well among the deathless gods with a

word or action, bring this prayer to pass: Honor my son Achilles!"

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Thetis is asking Zeus to help out Achilles Question 2: "Look, I will bow my head if that will satisfy you. That, I remind you, that among the immortal gods is the strongest, truest sign that I can give."

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Zeus telling Thetis that he will accept her prayer, but once bows his head there is no going back

Question 3: "You are nothing to me-you and your overweening anger!"

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Agamemnon yelling at Achilles Question 4: "Chryses, the lord of men Agamemnon sent me here to bring your daughter back and perform a sacrifice, a grand sacrifice to Apollo-for all Achaea's sake-so we can appease the god who has loosed such torment on the Argives."

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Odysseus gives Chryseis back to her father and performs a sacrifice to Apollo

Question 5: "Leaving Priam and all the men of Troy trophy to glory over, Helen of Argos, Helen for whom so many Argives lost their lives in Troy, far from native land."

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Hera asking Athena why the men are giving up after everything they'd been through Question 6: "Hear me, Apollo! God of the silver bow who strides the walls of Chryse and Cilla sacrosanct-..."

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Chryses praying to Apollo to start a plague on the Greek army Question 7: "Down from the skies I come to check your rage if only you will yield. The white-armed goddess Hera sped me down: she loves you both, she loves you both, she cares for you both alike. Stop this fighting, now. Don't lay hand to sword. Lash him with threats of the price that he will face. And I tell you this-and I know it is the truth-one day glittering gifts will lie before you, three times over to pay for all his outrage. Hold back now. Obey us both."

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Athena trying to convince Achilles to spare Agamemnon

Question 8: "Nine days the arrows of god swept through the army..."

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Apollo's curse in action Question 9: "Staggering drunk, with your dog's eyes, your fawn's heart!"

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Achilles insulting Agamemnon, instead of killing him.Question 10: "Whatever is right for you to hear, no one, trust me, will know of it before you."

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Zeus trying to explain to Hera that she will not be forgotten in any of his plans Question 11: "Go to Achilles' lodge. Take Briseis at once, his beauty Briseis by the hand and bring her here. But if he will not surrender her, I'll go myself, I'll seize her myself, with an army at my back-and all the worse for him!"

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Agamemnon telling his men to go and capture Briseis, Achilles wife.

Question 12: "My child-why in tears? What sorrow has touched your heart? Tell me, please.Don't harbor it deep inside you. We must share it all."

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Thetis responding to her sons prayer Question 13: "Hear me, Apollo! If you honored me last time and heard my prayer and rained destruction down on all Achaea's ranks...Now, at last drive this killing plague from the armies of Achaea!"

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Chryses praying to Apollo asking for him to lift the plague off of the Greek army Question 14: "Zeus, Zeus... don't let the sun go down or the night descend on us! Not till I hurl the smoke-black halls of Priam headlong..."

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Agamemnon praying to Zeus Question 15: "Why, why now? Child of Zeus with the shield of thunder, why come now? To witness the outrage Agamemnon just committed? I tell you this, and so help me it's the truth-he'll soon pay for his arrogance!"

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Achilles dumbfounded that Athena chose this exact moment to come down and do something Question 16: "...persuade him, somehow, to help the Trojan cause, to pin the Achaeans back against their ships, trap them round the bay and mow them down. So all can reap the benefits of their king-so even mighty Atrides can see how mad he was to disgrace Achilles, the best of the Achaeans!"

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Achilles asking his mother to talk to Zeus, gain his favor, and help get his honor back Question 17: "Mother! You gave me life, short as hat life will be, so at least Olympian Zeus, thundering up on high, should give me honor-but now he gives me nothing. Atreus' son Agamemnon, for all his far-flung kingdoms-the man disgraces me, seizes and keeps my prize, he tears her away himself!"

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Achilles praying to his mother, Thetis, and asking her for help.

Question 18: "What if the everlasting gods have made a spearman of him? Have they entitled him to hurl abuse at me?"

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Agamemnon wondering if the gods put Achilles up to all his crap Question 19: "But now I have a terrible fear that she has won you over, Thetis, the Old Man of the Sea's daughter, Thetis with her glistening feet."

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Hera knows that Zeus agreed to help Thetis Question 20: "Now again, you divine god's why the deadly Archer multiplies our pains: because I, I refused that glittering price for the young girl Chyrseis."

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Agamemnon realizes he's at fault for the plague Question 21: "Oh disaster... that's what it is, and it will be unbearable if the two of you must come to blows this way, flinging the gods in chaos just for mortal men."

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Hephaestus trying to calm Hera down Question 22: "So, who of the gods this time, my treacherous one, was hatching plans with you?"

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Hera expressing her irritation to Zeus

Question 23: "Go, murderous Dream to Agamemnon."

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Zeus using divine intervention to persuade Agamemnon to get his soldiers to fight Question 24: "Go Patroclus, Prince, bring out the girl and hand her to them so they can take her back."

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Achilles is willingly giving Briseis to Agamemnon so that the plague will be over