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

2. What is Thetis afraid of?
(a) That someone else will kill Hector.
(b) That Patroclus will keep Achilles from winning his glory.
(c) That there is more to the prophecy than she knows.
(d) That Achilles will not win all his family before he dies.

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

4. How does Patroclus describe his anger at Achilles for allowing Briseis to be taken?
(a) He says that Achilles is mad with rage at Agamemnon.
(b) He says that he does not know this man.
(c) He says that Achilles has betrayed himself.
(d) He says that Achilles is possessed by an evil spirit.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Patroclus describe his relationship with Achilles now that Achilles and Agamemnon are in conflict?

2. What does Briseis teach Patroclus?

3. How does Patroclus describe the feeling in the camps as the years drag on?

4. Why does Patroclus want Achilles to claim Briseis?

5. What advice does Odysseus give Achilles regarding returning to the fight?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is Patroclus’ experience of fighting?

2. What is Achilles’ answer to the situation Agamemnon and Patroclus have set up?

3. What does Patroclus’ accomplish in his interview with Agamemnon?

4. What is it that prevents the Greeks from sailing to Troy from Aulis?

5. How does Patroclus try to moderate the effects of Achilles’ withdrawal?

6. Why do the Greeks adopt the strategy of raiding around Troy instead of negotiating?

7. How does Achilles prevent the mutiny in the fourth year of the war?

8. Patroclus recalls Chiron saying that no man’s life is worth more than another’s. How does he settle the questions this philosophical statement raises, in light of Achilles’ conflict with Agamemnon?

9. How does Thetis help Achilles’ renown when the Greek ships land at Aulis?

10. How does the battle go, once Achilles is not fighting?

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