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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What color sails do traders typically use on their ships?
(a) Purple.
(b) Gold.
(c) Crimson.
(d) White.
2. What does Patroclus father offer Tyndareus for his daughter’s hand?
(a) Gold.
(b) Sculpture.
(c) Musical instruments.
(d) Slaves.
3. What distinction does Peleus offer Achilles?
(a) Leadership of the Phthian war party.
(b) Two more years to learn from Chiron in Pelion.
(c) Safe haven in Phthia during the war.
(d) Leadership of the Greek war party.
4. What is Patroclus doing in his only memory of his mother?
(a) Skinning a goat.
(b) Skipping stones.
(c) Building a sculpture.
(d) Racing with Achilles.
5. What does Odysseus promise Achilles, if he comes to Troy?
(a) Serving girls.
(b) Fame.
(c) Comfort.
(d) Safety.
Short Answer Questions
1. What other hero has Chiron taught?
2. Where does Achilles’ mother live?
3. Why does Peleus take in exiled boys?
4. What color is the cloak Achilles receives for his birthday?
5. How long did Thetis stay with Peleus before she returned to the ocean?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is the important question Chiron asks Achilles, and what is Achilles’ response?
2. How is Achilles’ identity unmasked?
3. How does the news of the war find Achilles and Patroclus on Scyros?
4. How does Achilles show Patroclus another way of looking at the death of Clysonymus?
5. What is Patroclus’ status at the opening of the novel?
6. What is Patroclus’ first impression of Achilles at his home?
7. Why does Patroclus’ father take him to bid for Tyndareus’ hand in marriage?
8. What conundrum is Patroclus caught in, now that the army will be going to Troy?
9. How do Achilles and Patroclus behave once Achilles says that Thetis cannot see them on Mt. Pelion?
10. What leverage do Odysseus and Diomedes use to get Achilles to go to Troy?
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