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.
30. Q. What does the Odyssey mean? A. The poem of Odysseus, or Ulysses, king of the island of Ithaca.
31. Q. When Troy was taken, for what place did Odysseus and his followers sail? A. Ithaca.
32. Q. On their way, to what land were they driven? A. That of the Cyclops, a savage race of one-eyed giants.
33. Q. Here what did Odysseus do to the Cyclop Polyphemus? A. He put out the eye of the monster after he had eaten six of the hero’s comrades.
34. Q. What did Poseidon, the god of the sea and father of Polyphemus, do in revenge? A. He doomed Odysseus to wander far and wide over the sea to strange lands.
35. Q. When the Odyssey begins, ten years after the fall of Troy, where is Odysseus? A. In the island of Ogygia, at the center of the sea, where for seven years the nymph Calypso has detained him against his will.
36. Q. Meanwhile what has befallen Penelope, the wife of Odysseus, in Ithaca? A. She has been courted by more than a hundred suitors, lawless, violent men, who feast riotously in the house of Odysseus as if it were their own.