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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Why does Apollo make Achilles chase him all over the plain?
(a) To give the Trojans time to make their walls stronger.
(b) To give the Trojans time to collect their dead.
(c) To give the Trojans time to enter the city.
(d) To give the Trojans time to help their women and children flee.

3. After Apollo intervenes, who confronts Achilles first?
(a) Nestor.
(b) Aeneas.
(c) Paris.
(d) Hector.

4. 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) The prophecy his mother told him.
(d) He does not want to die.

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 cloud of fire over his head.
(c) Makes him more visible with a bright star over his head.
(d) Makes him more visible with a shining sun over his head.

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

7. What does Achilles keep from Patroclus?
(a) His favorite sword.
(b) His favorite spear.
(c) His favorite bow and arrows.
(d) His armor.

8. Who alerts the Trojans to King Priam's return?
(a) Aleanna.
(b) Paris.
(c) Cassandra.
(d) Helen.

9. Who suggests that Odysseus, Diomedes, and Agamemnon go to the battlefield to be seen and not fight?
(a) Diomedes.
(b) Odysseus.
(c) Nestor .
(d) Agamemnon.

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

11. Who does Zeus send to Achilles with ambrosia?
(a) Athena.
(b) Aphrodite.
(c) Hera.
(d) Artemis.

12. After Hector has died, and is being dragged behind Achilles' chariot, who utters a lament for Hector?
(a) Andromena.
(b) Helen.
(c) Karissia.
(d) Andromache.

13. Who is the fire god?
(a) Mars.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Hephaestus.
(d) Zeus.

14. What goddess gives the horses a voice?
(a) Athena.
(b) Aphrodite.
(c) Hera.
(d) Thetis.

15. Who is Hera's messenger to Achilles?
(a) Artemis.
(b) Iris.
(c) Athena.
(d) She goes herself.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hector beg to have happen with his body?

2. What does Achilles tell his mother he is going to do in response to Patroclus' death?

3. Achilles' mother is the daughter of which god?

4. Who delivers the news of Patroclus' death to Achilles?

5. Hera injures what god?

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