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8. Q. What was the occasion of the wrath of Achilles? A. The arbitrary
interference of Agamemnon to deprive Achilles of a female captive,
Briseïs, and usurp her to himself.
9. Q. What at length incites Achilles to again return to the field? A.
The death of Patroclus, his close friend, slain by the Trojans.
10. Q. What is the result as to Achilles? A. He slays Hector, the
Trojan champion, and is himself killed by Paris.
11. Q. What forms the subject of the Odyssey? A. The adventures of one
of the Greek chieftains, Ulysses, or Odysseus.
12. Q. When and how does the Iliad itself close? A. Before the fall of
Troy, and with the death and funeral rites of Hector.
13. Q. What are some of the best known translations of the Iliad? A.
Chapman’s, Pope’s, Cowper’s, Derby’s and Bryant’s.
14. Q. Of what are some of the most noted passages in the first book of
the Iliad descriptive? A. The descent of Apollo, the wrangle between
Achilles and Agamemnon, the promise of Jupiter to Thetis, and the feast
of the gods.
15. Q. What does the second book of the Iliad recount? A. How Jupiter
sends a deceiving dream to Agamemnon to induce that chieftain to make a
vain assault on the Trojans.
16. Q. With what does the book close? A. With a catalogue of the Greek
forces assembled.
17. Q. To us who read in the light of present views what is a feature
of the Iliad fatal to any genuine interest in the story? A. The
introduction of supernatural agencies into the action of the poem.
18. Q. What is one of the prominent scenes introduced in the third book
of the Iliad? A. A duel between Paris, the thief, and Menelaus, the
husband of Helen.
19. Q. What takes place at the crisis of the duel? A. Venus steps in
and carries Paris off to his bed-chamber in the palace of Priam.
20. Q. In the fourth book what is described by a simile, one of the
most nobly conceived and nobly expressed of all that occur in the
Iliad? A. The advance of the Achaians to battle.
21. Q. What noted hero is introduced in the fifth book of the Iliad?
A. Æneas, the Trojan hero of Virgil’s poem, the Æneid.
22. Q. Of what is one of the most famous passages in the sixth book of
the Iliad descriptive? A. The parting of Hector and Andromache, his
wife, bringing with her their little child.
23. Q. Who among the Greeks takes the honors of the seventh book of the
Iliad? A. Ajax.
24. Q. What constitutes a prominent feature in the eighth book of the
Iliad? A. Another account of the Olympian gods in council.
25. Q. Technically described what is Homer’s verse? A. Dactylic
hexameter.
26. Q. What is a dactyl? A. A foot of three syllables, of which the
first is long and the other two short.
27. Q. In dactylic hexameter how many of these feet are there in a
line? A. Six.
28. Q. Name a classic English poem written in dactylic hexameter. A.
Longfellow’s “Evangeline.”
29. Q. In what celebrated descriptive passage does Homer exhaust all
his art? A. In his description of the shield of Achilles.
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