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1. After Agamemnon rejected Chryses' ransom offer for the return of his daughter, which god sent a plague to the Greeks?
2. Which god or goddess did Zeus send to warn the Trojans of the Greek threat?
3. Which god or goddess saved Paris in his duel with Menelaus?
4. Which Trojan did Athene convince to shoot Menelaus?
5. After being stabbed by Diomedes, Aphrodite complained to her mother. What was her mother's name?
6. To which god or goddess was an offering made by the Trojans to try to stop Diomedes on his rampage?
7. Which god was told by Zeus that he would "break down the [Greeks'] wall...once the Greeks have sailed back to the land of their fathers?"
8. Which goddess attempted to persuade Poseidon to give help to the Greeks?
9. In the first speech of Book 9, which god did Agamemnon say had "deluded" him?
10. Which god or goddess sent a bird of omen to Odysseus and Diomedes?
11. Which was the only one of the gods and goddesses who did not stay away from the battle before Agamemnon was wounded?
12. True or false: after Zeus sent the eagle and the snake as an omen to the Trojans, they went forward anyway.
13. Which two Greeks did Poseidon first rally?
14. Which god or goddess told Poseidon that he could continue to help the Greeks?
15. Which god or goddess did Zeus order to help the Trojans?
16. Who was the father of Sarpedon, a Trojan that was killed by Patroclus?
17. Which Greek was encouraged by Athene and dragged Patroclus' body back to the Greeks?
18. In Book 18, Achilles' mother told him that his death would be soon after Hector's. What was her name?
19. Who did Zeus tell to secretly feed Achilles?
20. Which god or goddess rescued Aeneas from Achilles?
21. Which god or goddess refused to fight another immortal?
22. Just before dying, Hector foretold Achilles' death and attributed it to Paris and to which god?
23. Which two immortals preserved Hector's body?
24. Which god or goddess took Priam to Achilles?
25. An easy one to end: what was Achilles one vulnerable spot?
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