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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 23.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Achilles' mother ask him to wait for?
(a) Her to bring back a new set of armor.
(b) Her to bring back fighters.
(c) Her to bring back a set of sea-armor.
(d) Her to bring back a god-made weapon.

2. Achilles' mother is the daughter of which god?
(a) Apollo.
(b) Poseidon.
(c) Ares.
(d) Zeus.

3. After Patroclus is sent to the fighting by Achilles, Achilles asks what of Zeus?
(a) For Patroclus' success and safety.
(b) For the Greeks' success and safety.
(c) For Patroclus to be unharmed.
(d) For no more Greek ships to be burned.

4. Who comes to grieve Patroclus' death with Achilles?
(a) His father .
(b) His mother.
(c) His friends.
(d) His brother.

5. What does Athena do to Achilles?
(a) Makes him more visible by shining the sun on him.
(b) Makes him more visible with a bright star over his head.
(c) Makes him more visible with a cloud of fire over his head.
(d) Makes him more visible with a shining sun over his head.

Short Answer Questions

1. What advice does Zeus let Athena give to the Greeks after she promises not to interfere?

2. Who recommends that both sides take a break from the war to bury their dead?

3. Who's withdrawal weakens the Trojan army?

4. Apollo grants what protection to Hector's corpse?

5. Patroclus tells Hector that Hector gained victory because?

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