The Trojan Women Quizzes

The Trojan Women Quiz 1

By Kristen Osborne-Bartucca · Edited by Aaron Suduiko · Last reviewed April 22, 2019

1 The play was first performed in

415 BCE

415 CE

115 BCE

400 BCE
2 How many other plays accompany "The Trojan Women"?

4

1

3

2
3 Which god speaks the prologue?

Poseidon

Artemis

Apollo

Ares
4 How does Poseidon feel about Troy's destruction?

He is enraged

He is upset

He is pleased

He is indifferent
5 Who lies suffering on the ground in front of the walls of Troy?

Helen

Andromache

Polyxena

Hecuba
6 Which goddess joins Poseidon?

Athena

Hera

Artemis

Aphrodite
7 Athena is angry at

Poseidon

the Trojans

the Achaeans

Hecuba
8 What does Athena want to do to the Achaeans?

Destroy their ships

Celebrate them

Murder them now

Let them go, but warn them
9 Hecuba's woes include all the following except

the loss of her city

Kassandra's death

Priam's death

Hector's death
10 What is Hecuba going to become now?

A prisoner

A concubine

A slave

A queen
11 Who is described as a "wild, frenzied" "dervish"?

Kassandra

Andromache

Hecuba

Helen
12 Talthybios is a/an

general

herald

politician

soldier
13 With whom is Kassandra going?

Achilles

Odysseus

Agamemnon

Menelaus
14 Kassandra is all the following except

a virgin

considered mad

a prophetess

married to a Greek
15 Polyxena is

to be killed by being thrown off the walls of Troy

given to Agamemnon

given to Odysseus

dead
16 With whom is Andromache to go?

Agamemnon

Neoptolemus

Achilles

Odysseus
17 How does Hecuba feel when she learns she is to be a slave of Odysseus?

She is horrified

She is content

She is indifferent

She is surprised
18 Kassandra performs a mock

birth

wedding

death

battle
19 The chorus is comprised of

Trojan women

Greek women

the dead

Trojan children
20 Kassandra's prophecies include all the following except

she will be killed by Clytemnestra

she will kill Agamemnon

Odysseus will have many struggles on his way home

she will topple the house of Atreus
21 Who gave Kassandra her gift of prophecy?

Poseidon

Aphrodite

Apollo

Athena
22 The trials of Odysseus that Kassandra mentions include all the following except

Circe

Charybdis

the Cyclops

the Sirens
23 Hecuba seems to have lost her faith in

the gods

herself

Troy

humanity
24 What turned the tide of the Trojan War?

Specific warriors

More money

A betrayal

The Trojan Horse
25 Which god/goddess is seen as responsible for the Trojan Horse?

Zeus

Athena

Apollo

Ares

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