Homer and Archaic Greece – Quiz

1. Achilles kills ________ out of revenge for the death of his friend _________.
2. Along with the Bible, the epic poet ______ is usually identified as the head of the Western literary tradition.
3. Homeric warriors struggled for “__________” in the sense that they wanted their names to live on after them.
4. In the Odyssey, Odysseus must struggle for ten years to return to ________ where his wife _________ is beset by a crowd of suitors.
5. The action of the Iliad begins with a quarrel between _________ and ________.
6. The two major developments of the Archaic Age cited in the lecture were the colonization of the Mediterranean and Black Seas and the evolution of ________.
7. True/False: Greek religion was primarily concerned with people’s ethical behavior at the individual level.
8. What was one of the significant impacts cited of the Greek colonization of the Mediterranean and Black Seas?

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1. Hector, Patroclus
2. Homer
3. immortality
4. Ithaca, Penelope
5. Achilles, Agamemnon
6. Polis
7. False
8. Increased trade, spread of Greek culture