Quiz  /  The Trojan War Quiz

  • 1. 
    Which author is typically credited for assembling stories from the Trojan War?

  • Virgil
  • Homer
  • Sappho
  • Ovid

  • 2. 
    Who is the author of the Aeneid, which contains what many consider to be the best known account of the sacking of Troy?

  • Sappho
  • Ovid
  • Pliny the Elder
  • Virgil

  • 3. 
    Who was the king of Troy during the Trojan War?

  • Agamemnon
  • Alcaeus
  • Priam
  • Paris

  • 4. 
    Who was the principal wife of the king of Troy during the Trojan War?

  • Hecuba
  • Cassandra
  • Andromache
  • Helen

  • 5. 
    What is the name of the king of Sparta, whose wife, Helen, fled Sparta with the son of the king of Troy?

  • Agamemnon
  • Menelaus
  • Priam
  • Odysseus

  • 6. 
    Who commanded the Greek armies that sought to recover Helen from Troy?

  • Odysseus
  • Achilles
  • Perseus
  • Agamemnon

  • 7. 
    Troy withstood a Greek siege for how many years?

  • 10
  • 9
  • 12
  • 8

  • 8. 
    Who was Troy’s finest warrior, who was killed by Achilles?

  • Paris
  • Hector
  • Ajax
  • Odysseus

  • 9. 
    Which god guided Paris’s arrow to strike Achilles’ only vulnerable point, his heel, and eventually kill him?

  • Aphrodite
  • Apollo
  • Athena
  • Ares
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