Book 15

Question 1

Name of the book

Answer 1

The Greeks at bay

Question 2

Zeus to Hera

Answer 2

rebukes her angrily

Question 3

Zeus to Iris

Answer 3

sends her to impose his will on Poseidon

Question 4

Zeus to Apollo

Answer 4

sends him to revive Hector

Question 5

Apollo’s actions

Answer 5

fills in the Greek trench and breaks down the wall

“as a boy at the seaside knocks down a sandcastle”

Question 6

The Greeks are

Answer 6

forced back to the ships

Question 7

Ajax

Answer 7

leaps from ship to ship as the Trojans bring firebrands to Hector so he can set fire to the ships

Question 8

The effect of Zeus’s reply to Hera

Answer 8

summarises the rest of the poem making it clear he will keep his promise to Thetis

Question 9

Prediction

Answer 9

alludes to the future
the idea of inevitability and fate is conveyed throughout
-in stark contrast to the apparent chaos of the action

Question 10

Hector’s aristea

Answer 10

simile’s of the fire he is bringing to the ships

-and elemental force