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.