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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Achilles treat Deidameia?
(a) He fawns over her.
(b) He flirts with her attention.
(c) He ignores her utterly.
(d) He shows great devotion to her.

2. What gift does Patroclus give Achilles on his birthday?
(a) A lyre.
(b) A knife.
(c) Figs.
(d) A tunic.

3. How are Achilles and Patroclus expected to treat girls?
(a) As potential wives.
(b) As equals.
(c) As goddesses.
(d) As sexual playthings.

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

5. Why do kings send their daughters to Lycomedes?
(a) For protection.
(b) For punishment.
(c) For education.
(d) For fostering.

6. Where does Patroclus see Achilles for the first time?
(a) At Tyndareus’ house.
(b) In Troy.
(c) In Peleus’ house.
(d) At the Olympic games.

7. How does Thetis change Achilles’ appearance when he returns to Phthia?
(a) She makes him smaller and harder to envy.
(b) She cloaks him in light.
(c) She makes him larger and more resplendent.
(d) She hides him from the people who will hate him.

8. Where does Achilles’ mother live?
(a) Scyros.
(b) Under the sea.
(c) Mt. Olympus.
(d) Phthia.

9. After Achilles and Patroclus turn 16, what question does Achilles ask his mother?
(a) Whether she can see them with Chiron.
(b) Whether Patroclus can become immortal.
(c) How he will die.
(d) When Patroclus will die.

10. How long does it take before Achilles befriends Patroclus?
(a) Two months.
(b) One year.
(c) Four weeks.
(d) Three days.

11. Where is Achilles taken when he disappears from Phthia?
(a) Aulis.
(b) Scyros.
(c) Ithaka.
(d) Pelion.

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

13. How long do Achilles and Patroclus stay with Chiron?
(a) Two years.
(b) Three years.
(c) Four years.
(d) One year.

14. Who does Tyndareus’ daughter choose as a husband?
(a) Diomedes.
(b) Odysseus.
(c) Menelaus.
(d) Patroclus.

15. How does Patroclus treat Deidameia?
(a) He speaks up for her.
(b) He holds her in contempt.
(c) He fawns over her.
(d) He flirts with her.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Patroclus describe his father?

2. Who tells Patroclus where Achilles has been taken, when he disappears after their intimacies?

3. What color sails are flying on the ship that comes to Achilles and Patroclus?

4. Why does Peleus take in exiled boys?

5. What does Patroclus take with him when he leaves Phthia?

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