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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Patroclus describe the feeling in the camps as the years drag on?
(a) Solidarity.
(b) Hostility.
(c) Fractiousness.
(d) Divisiveness.

2. Why is Patroclus nervous when Achilles talks to Thetis?
(a) He is afraid that Thetis will tell of Patroclus’ death.
(b) He knows what she will say but does not want to admit it.
(c) He is afraid of news of Achilles’ impending death.
(d) He dreads that she will bring news of more deaths and bloodshed.

3. How does Patroclus describe his relationship with Achilles now that Achilles and Agamemnon are in conflict?
(a) He says that Achilles is half his soul.
(b) He says that Achilles is a stranger to him now.
(c) He says that Achilles is his best self.
(d) He says that Achilles is his trusted companion and he must honor his wishes.

4. What does Achilles kill while he is talking with Patroclus about war?
(a) A deer.
(b) A snake.
(c) A turtle.
(d) A bird.

5. After finally leaving for Troy, what does Achilles want to know about Patroclus’ childhood?
(a) What it was like to be exiled.
(b) What it was like to be marked as a murderer.
(c) What it was like when he killed Clysonymus.
(d) What it was like to be a foster child.

6. How does Agamemnon want to start his campaign against Troy?
(a) With raiding.
(b) With negotiations.
(c) With a siege.
(d) With battle in the plains of Troy.

7. What do Achilles and Patroclus say about Hector, to reassure themselves of Achilles’ relative safety?
(a) That Hector is too strong to be killed .
(b) That Hector has not done anything to them.
(c) That Hector is too cowardly to show himself in battle.
(d) That Hector does not know who Achilles is, yet..

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

9. Where does Agamemnon situate Achilles in his line of battle?
(a) In the center.
(b) To Menelaus’ left.
(c) In the rear.
(d) To his right, in the most prominent place.

10. How many men does Achilles kill on his first day in battle?
(a) 12.
(b) 24.
(c) 10.
(d) 6.

11. How does the narrative change after Patroclus’ death?
(a) It switches to second-person narration.
(b) Achilles takes over as narrator.
(c) It becomes third-person omniscient narration.
(d) It becomes third-person limited narration.

12. Who tears down the wall around the Greeks’ ships?
(a) Priam.
(b) Hector.
(c) Sarpedon.
(d) Paris.

13. Who will be the next Aristos Archaion?
(a) Ajax.
(b) Pyrrhus.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Menelaus.

14. How do the Trojans’ successes in battle affect the Greeks’ morale?
(a) They rally against the Trojans.
(b) They turn against Achilles.
(c) They turn against Agamemnon.
(d) Their losses pile up as they become dejected.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Achilles say he thinks of the Trojan warriors?

2. What happens to Iphigenia?

3. How does Patroclus describe the appearance of Achilles’ hair as he is announced to the Greeks in the harbor?

4. What task does Odysseus assign the men to do, to distract them from their discontentment?

5. Whose thigh does Patroclus see pierced with a spear?

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