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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. Why can the fleet not sail to Troy, now that the forces are all together?
(a) Not enough ships.
(b) Strong storms.
(c) No wind.
(d) Evil omens.

4. How does Agamemnon respond to Chryses’ offering?
(a) Sympathetically.
(b) Patiently.
(c) Contemptuously.
(d) Indifferently.

5. Who is first in line for the distribution of war prizes?
(a) Odysseus.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Menelaus.
(d) Achilles.

6. How does Patroclus describe Agamemnon?
(a) Fragile and thin.
(b) Solid and sharp.
(c) Sly and wily.
(d) Wiry and agile.

7. How does Patroclus show Briseis that he means her no harm?
(a) By doctoring her injuries.
(b) By kissing Achilles.
(c) He tells her so in her own language.
(d) By sign language.

8. What is the last thing Thetis says to Achilles?
(a) She says that Achilles is going to die soon.
(b) She says that she wants nothing to do with him.
(c) She says that she is glad Patroclus is dead.
(d) She says that Achilles’ fame has been accomplished.

9. Which god/goddess looks out for Paris?
(a) Artemis.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Athena.
(d) Aphrodite.

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

11. How does Priam justify Helen’s presence in Troy?
(a) He says that she was never married to Menelaus.
(b) He says that Menelaus had stolen her from the Trojans, who merely took her back.
(c) He says that she was brought by the gods.
(d) He says she came of her own will.

12. What does Agamemnon do, that almost starts a mutiny?
(a) Withdraws from the fighting.
(b) Murders a disrespectful soldier.
(c) Pushes his men too hard with too many days of fighting in a row.
(d) Seizes his soldiers’ war prizes.

13. How does the duel between Menelaus and Paris end?
(a) Menelaus kills Paris.
(b) Menelaus is wounded and retreats.
(c) Paris is wounded and retreats.
(d) Paris is whisked way by the gods.

14. How does Patroclus kill this warrior?
(a) Knocking him off his chariot so he hits his head on a rock.
(b) Piercing him with a spear.
(c) Impaling him on another warrior’s spear.
(d) Slitting his throat with a sword.

15. Who is the oldest of the Greeks in the fleet?
(a) Diomedes.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Ajax.
(d) Nestor.

Short Answer Questions

1. In what way does Briseis remind Patroclus of his mother?

2. How do the Greeks realize that Agamemnon was wrong to take Briseis from Achilles?

3. Which Trojan warrior does Patroclus kill?

4. How does the second duel, between Hector and Ajax, end?

5. What is the cause behind the fleet’s inability to sail to Troy?

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