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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 9-12.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is Patroclus most interested in learning from Chiron?
(a) Medicine.
(b) Tracking.
(c) Warfare.
(d) Woodworking.

2. What color is the cloak Achilles receives for his birthday?
(a) Gold.
(b) White.
(c) Crimson.
(d) Purple.

3. What are Deidameia’s women famous for?
(a) Dancing.
(b) Poetry.
(c) Singing.
(d) Weaving.

4. Who tells Patroclus where Achilles has been taken, when he disappears after their intimacies?
(a) Thetis.
(b) Peleus.
(c) Chiron.
(d) Phoinix.

5. Why does Peleus take in exiled boys?
(a) To give as gifts to kings.
(b) To make an army.
(c) To work his fields.
(d) To provide for his people.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Achilles placate Deidameia?

2. How does Peleus respond when Achilles says that he does not expect to be convinced to fight?

3. How long did Thetis stay with Peleus before she returned to the ocean?

4. Why are Achilles and Patroclus recalled to Phthia?

5. How long do Achilles and Patroclus stay with Chiron?

(see the answer key)

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