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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. How does Deidameia compel Patroclus to make love to her?
(a) She offers to claim that Achilles’ baby is his.
(b) She seduces him with dancing and singing.
(c) She threatens to call the guards and say he attacked her if he does not.
(d) She invokes his parents and recalls times when she visited his childhood home.

2. Who does Patroclus dream about when he moves to Achilles’ room?
(a) Helen.
(b) Clysonymus.
(c) Menoitius.
(d) Achilles.

3. What does Patroclus say is most surprising in Achilles’ new status?
(a) He is a commander of men, now.
(b) He is protected by a huge guard.
(c) He is open about his intimacy with Patroclus.
(d) He is the subject of treacherous plots.

4. What color sails do traders typically use on their ships?
(a) Crimson.
(b) White.
(c) Gold.
(d) Purple.

5. What reason does Achilles give for his confidence that he will be the first happy hero?
(a) His love for Patroclus.
(b) His boyish delight.
(c) His mother’s protection.
(d) His skill in battle.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Patroclus’ response when Chiron asks him whether he wants to learn to be a soldier?

2. How does Chiron handle Thetis’ demand that Patroclus not train with Achilles?

3. What is Patroclus’ mother’s scar from, on her temple?

4. What does Chiron give Achilles as a gift for his expedition to Troy?

5. Where is Achilles taken when he disappears from Phthia?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Achilles explain his friendship with Patroclus to Peleus?

2. How do Achilles and Patroclus get called back to civilization?

3. How does Patroclus end up fighting Achilles, and what is the outcome?

4. What conundrum is Patroclus caught in, now that the army will be going to Troy?

5. How do Achilles and Patroclus come to be close?

6. What prophecy does Odysseus tell Achilles about the conditions under which he will die?

7. What is the important question Chiron asks Achilles, and what is Achilles’ response?

8. Describe Achilles’ relationship with Deidameia.

9. Why does Deidameia accuse Achilles of being ‘apathos,’ or heartless?

10. What does Peleus tell his people about the news from Mycenae?

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