Worksheets for "Opening"

Date: __________Name: ________________________________________ Section: ______
6th Grade English
Review - Trojan War, Part II

Chapter 1, "The Trojan Princes"

Character: Identify the following people in this chapter:

Hector ______________________________________________________________________

Antenor_____________________________________________________________________

Andromache_________________________________________________________________

Polydamas __________________________________________________________________

Aenas_______________________________________________________________________

Troilus ______________________________________________________________________

Priam _______________________________________________________________________

Cassandra __________________________________________________________________

Setting: Where do the events of this chapter take place?

______________________________________________________________________________

Action:

There are two main scenes in this chapter. What are they?

______________________________________________________________________________

Why do you think the Trojans didn't simply return Helen when Menelaus asked for her return?

______________________________________________________________________________

Why do the Trojans think they can defend their city against the Greeks?

______________________________________________________________________________

Chapter 2, "The Foremost Man"

Character: Identify the following people in this chapter:

Laodamia ___________________________________________________________________

Protesilaus __________________________________________________________________

Setting: Where do the events of this chapter take place?

______________________________________________________________________________

Action: What happens in this chapter?

______________________________________________________________________________

Why is this chapter entitled "The Foremost Man?"

______________________________________________________________________________

There have been many stories in which objects come to life ("Toy Story," for example, and "Pygmalion.") Write an idea for a story in three sentences or more in which an object of your choice comes to life. Include characters, setting, and actions, and tell how your story ends.

______________________________________________________________________________

Chapter 3: "The Host Musters"

Identify the following people:

1. Diomede
________________________________________________________________________

2. Ajax
________________________________________________________________________

3. Teucer

________________________________________________________________________

4. Ajax the Less

________________________________________________________________________

5. Lykaon

________________________________________________________________________

6. Cycnus

________________________________________________________________________

How do Achilles and Agamemnon feel about one another? Justify your answer with evidence from the chapter.

________________________________________________________________________

Which gods are on the Greek side?

________________________________________________________________________

Which gods are on the Trojan side?

________________________________________________________________________

Why does Cycnus say Achilles can't kill him, and how does Achilles manage to kill him?
________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

Chapter 4: "Troilus and Cressida"

Identify the following people:

7. Troilus
________________________________________________________________________

8. Cressida
________________________________________________________________________

9. Calchas
________________________________________________________________________

10. Pandarus
________________________________________________________________________

11. Diomede
________________________________________________________________________

Explain why Cressida lives in Troy if her father has joined the Greeks.

________________________________________________________________________

How do Cressida and Troilus meet, and what does Troilus give to Cressida?

________________________________________________________________________

Why do you think Cressida does not return to Troy? Justify your answer and give evidence from the chapter to support what you say.

________________________________________________________________________

In Shakespeare's play Troilus and Cressida, Odysseus brings Troilus into the Greek camp and lets him see that Cressida is in love with Diomedes. In the book The Trojan War, Troilus does not see this directly. Which version do you think makes a better story? Explain your answer.

________________________________________________________________________

________________________________________________________________________

Chapter 5: "The Time of Discouragement"

Give one reason why the Greeks were feeling certain of capturing Troy at the beginning of the chapter.

________________________________________________________________________

What was one reason Agamemnon was losing popularity among the Greeks?

________________________________________________________________________

What did Palamedes do while Achilles and others were absent?

________________________________________________________________________

How does Odysseus plan to defeat Palamedes and restore Agamemnon to commander-in-chief?

________________________________________________________________________

What does Agamemnon believe about the motives of Odysseus?

________________________________________________________________________

Odysseus reminds Agamemnon of something which makes Agamemnon change the subject. What is it?

________________________________________________________________________

In the last two paragraphs of the chapter, Odysseus and Agamemnon say some things that reveal their character. Choose something one of them says, and explain what it tells you about him.

________________________________________________________________________