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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How long does Achilles hold the Greek army back so Priam can bury Hector?
(a) Twelve days.
(b) Ten days.
(c) Nine days.
(d) Eleven days.

2. Apollo takes what form on the battlefield?
(a) A mortal man, Demedious.
(b) A mortal man, Klaudius.
(c) A mortal man, Agenor.
(d) A mortal man, Hector.

3. What do Athena and Poseidon urge Achilles to do after he has angered the river god?
(a) Focus on preventing more Greek ships from dying.
(b) Focus on the war.
(c) Focus on pushing the battle to Troy.
(d) Focus on saving the Greek forces.

4. Which two Greeks carry Patroclus's body out of the battlefield and to the ships after Patroclus dies?
(a) Menelaus and Agamemnon.
(b) Menelaus and Antilochos.
(c) Menelaus and Diomedes.
(d) Menelaus and Ajax.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who suggests that Odysseus, Diomedes, and Agamemnon go to the battlefield to be seen and not fight?

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

3. After Agamemnon offers gifts in repentance to Achilles, where does Achilles tell Agamemnon their attention should be?

4. Why does Poseidon interfere again?

5. Who does Zeus send to Achilles with ambrosia?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why is Achilles' mother sad when she speaks to Achilles after Patroclus' death?

2. As the Trojans set fire to more Greek ships, what does Achilles do to help Patroclus and the Greeks?

3. Why does Zeus allow the gods back into the battle?

4. What is the goal of Zeus' plan, as he tells it to Hera?

5. Why does pride contribute to Hector's death?

6. What activities follow the burial of Patroclus?

7. In Book 15, while the gods are being informed of Zeus' plan, what are the Trojans and the Greeks doing?

8. What causes Achilles' new understanding of suffering in Book 24?

9. What arguments develop upon Patroclus' death?

10. How is Patroclus killed?

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