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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 does Agamemnon offer Achilles, in order to fulfill the gods’ desires, and liberate the fleet to sail to Troy?
(a) A prominent position for Patroclus .
(b) His weight in gold.
(c) His daughter’s hand in marriage.
(d) The first position among the other kings.

2. What does Patroclus spend hours each day doing among the captives?
(a) Teaching them Greek.
(b) Learning about Trojan culture.
(c) Gathering intelligence about the Trojan defenses.
(d) Doctoring their injuries.

3. What does Briseis teach Patroclus?
(a) The names of the Trojan heroes.
(b) The names of the Trojan captives.
(c) The names of the clouds and constellations.
(d) The names of plants and animals.

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

5. What animal gives the Myrmidons their name?
(a) Ants.
(b) Lions.
(c) Eagles.
(d) Dolphins.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Achilles keep the men from leaving?

2. What color cloak is Paris clothed in?

3. Whose help does Thetis enlist in protecting Achilles’ honor?

4. Where does Agamemnon situate Achilles in his line of battle?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What new wrinkle do Achilles and Patroclus learn about the prophecies from Thetis?

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

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

5. 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?

6. What is Patroclus’ experience of fighting?

7. Describe the tension that is created in the meeting between Achilles and Agamemnon.

8. How does Achilles’ relationship to Hector change?

9. How does Achilles react to Patroclus’ death?

10. Why does Patroclus ask Achilles to claim Briseis?

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