Question

"Let us build a great wooden horse", he said, "big
enough to hold men inside it, and let some of our best
fighters hide in the horse. Then let us burn our tents
and pretend to sail away in our ships. But instead of
sailing away, we will return in the night. When the
Trojans are asleep, we will attack the city and burn
and kill."
(main idea and evidence)​

Answer 1

The main idea and evidence of the paragraph is that they would burn their tents and use a great wooden horse to help some of their best fighters and pretend to sail away but afterwards they would come back and attack the trojans.

• The main idea was to pretend that their tents were burnt and show that they have sailed away in their ships.
• But they would come back and attack the trojans and burn the city.
• They would build use a wooden horse to for some of their best fighters to stay in it.