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6. Why are the Greeks able to advance on Ilium in this book?

  • Nestor has organised troops well.
  • Zeus is helping them.
  • The gods are absent.
  • Hector is absent.

7. When Paris returns to battle, what does he think Hector is doing at the city walls?

  • Watching the battle.
  • Waiting for him.
  • Fleeing war.
  • Waiting for the soothsayer.

8. Who does Hector ask to pray in the temple of Athene?

  • Hecabe and the noblewomen
  • Priam and the elders.
  • Priam and the noblemen
  • Helen and the noblewomen

9. What does Andromache do as soon as Hector leaves?

  • She visits Helen to seek reassurance.
  • She mourns for him because she believes he will die.
  • She calls for the hand maidens to take the child.
  • She visits Priam to seek reassurance.