Imp Questions For All Chapters – Kumarbharati English Class 9
The Fall of Troy
Short Questions
1. What are epics?
Answer: Long poems.
2. Who are two famous Sanskrit epic writers?
Answer: The Ramayana and The Mahabharata.
3. What are the two great epics of European literature?
Answer: The Iliad and The Odyssey.
4. Who was the most beautiful woman in the world?
Answer: Helen of Troy.
5. Who is believed to have composed The Iliad and The Odyssey?
Answer: Homer.
6. MWas Homer blind?
Answer: Yes.
7. What is The Iliad the story of?
Answer: Ilium or Troy.
8. Where was Troy located?
Answer: Asia Minor.
9. What protected Troy from sea attacks?
Answer: A strong wall.
10. Why did the Greeks and Trojans fight?
Answer: Because Paris persuaded Helen to elope with him.
11. How long did the siege of Troy last?
Answer: Ten long years.
12. Who killed Hector?
Answer: Achilles.
13. How was Achilles killed?
Answer: By a poisoned arrow in his heel.
14. How did the Greeks finally take Troy?
Answer: By a trick.
15. Who came up with the idea for the wooden horse?
Answer: Odysseus.
Long Questions
1. Describe what epics are and where the stories of The Iliad and The Odyssey come from.
Answer: Epics are long poems about great national heroes or wars, often telling a nation’s early history. The Iliad and The Odyssey are great epics of European literature from ancient Greece.
2. Explain why Troy was a prosperous city.
Answer: Troy was well-situated for trade with a sea route and had fertile lands with rivers flowing from Mount Ida. This allowed for both commerce and agriculture to flourish.
3. How was Troy protected, and what event led to the war?
Answer: Troy was protected by a strong wall, but the war began because Paris, a prince of Troy, persuaded Helen, the wife of a Greek king, to run away with him.
4. Summarize the events of the ten-year siege.
Answer: The Greeks laid siege to Troy, and for ten years, they fought daily. Neither side could gain a decisive advantage, with great heroes killed on both sides.
5. Describe Odysseus’s plan to enter Troy.
Answer: Odysseus suggested building a large wooden horse to hide Greek fighters inside. The Greeks would then pretend to leave, return at night, and attack the city.
6. What did the Trojans do when they found the wooden horse?
Answer: Thinking the Greeks had left, the Trojans rejoiced and brought the horse into the city, ignoring warnings that it could be a trick.
7. Explain how the Greeks destroyed Troy.
Answer: Under the cover of night, the Greeks came out of the horse, opened the city gates, and their army entered, setting fire to everything and killing the Trojans.
8. What was the fate of Troy’s royal family and Helen?
Answer: King Priam and his sons were killed, and Hector’s family was taken as slaves, but Menelaus forgave Helen, and she returned with him.
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