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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapters 29-31.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does the second duel, between Hector and Ajax, end?
(a) Hector crushes Ajax with a rock.
(b) They shake hands as friends.
(c) Ajax is wounded and withdraws.
(d) Hector is wounded and withdraws.

2. What does Patroclus say ‘fell away’ to allow his friendship with Achilles to blossom?
(a) Guilt.
(b) Sickness.
(c) Envy.
(d) Dread.

3. What does Achilles say Peleus told him, about how to think of the men he will fight?
(a) To treat them as animals.
(b) To treat them as dust.
(c) To see the divinity in each one.
(d) To respect the spirit of each one.

4. Whose help does Thetis enlist in protecting Achilles’ honor?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Artemis.
(d) Posiedon.

5. Where is Achilles and Patroclus’s camp situated?
(a) Nearest the walls of Troy.
(b) At the far end of the sandy beach.
(c) Beside Agamemnon’s in the center of the camp.
(d) At the heart of the marketplace.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Patroclus describe the feeling in the camps as the years drag on?

2. What does Patroclus spend hours each day doing among the captives?

3. How does Patroclus describe his relationship with Achilles now that Achilles and Agamemnon are in conflict?

4. What nickname does Peleus give Patroclus?

5. What color sails do traders typically use on their ships?

(see the answer key)

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