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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. After Patroclus has been avenged, who appears to Achilles in a dream to remind him of his fate?
(a) Nestor.
(b) Patroclus.
(c) Hector.
(d) Apollo.

2. Aphrodite anoints Hectors corpse with what?
(a) Poppy immortal oil.
(b) Lavender immortal oil.
(c) Rose immortal oil.
(d) Olive immortal oil.

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 no more Greek ships to be burned.
(d) For Patroclus to be unharmed.

4. What does Hector beg to have happen with his body?
(a) That it be delivered to King Priam.
(b) That it be given to Paris.
(c) That it be taken back to Troy.
(d) That it be delivered to his brother.

5. Patroclus leaves Eurypylos to go to whom?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Achilles.
(c) Hector.
(d) Odysseus.

6. Who does Poseidon disguise himself as when he appears to the Greeks after Zeus has taken his eyes off the battlefield?
(a) Agamemnon.
(b) Achilles.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Kalchas.

7. What do the Trojans do to the Greek ships after Hector has had strength breathed into him by a god?
(a) Sink them.
(b) Destroy them.
(c) Set fire to them.
(d) Send them out to sea.

8. What happens to Patroclus' horses?
(a) They run back to the ships because they fear the noise of the battle.
(b) The horses die.
(c) Menelaus takes them back to the ships with Patroclus' body.
(d) Zeus breathes strength into them so they can return to the ships.

9. What does Hermes do in the night to King Priam while he is in the Greek camp to ransom Hector's body?
(a) Wakes him up to get him to return home.
(b) Delievers a message from the gods in his dreams.
(c) Delivers a message from the gods.
(d) Wakes him up to prevent his death.

10. Poseidon appears to whom in order to inspire him to lead his men onto the battlefield, but stay out of range of arrows so as not to be wounded further?
(a) Ajax.
(b) Hector.
(c) Paris.
(d) Agamemnon.

11. Ajax wounds Hector with what?
(a) A spear.
(b) A large stone.
(c) A sword.
(d) An arrow.

12. Why does Poseidon interfere again?
(a) Because Amphimachos is killed by Hector.
(b) Because Poseidon doesn't like Zeus.
(c) Because Hector is his grandson.
(d) Because Hector prays to Poseidon.

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

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

15. Achilles tells Patroclus that he is not fighting because of what?
(a) The prophecy Kalchas made.
(b) Agamemnon's actions in the matter of Briseis.
(c) He does not want to die.
(d) The prophecy his mother told him.

Short Answer Questions

1. After Hector has died, and is being dragged behind Achilles' chariot, who utters a lament for Hector?

2. Achilles kills so many men in the river, that he angers what god?

3. Why does Menelaus think Achilles will not come to fight?

4. Apollo takes what form on the battlefield?

5. After Apollo intervenes, who confronts Achilles first?

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