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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 Patroclus describe his relationship with Achilles now that Achilles and Agamemnon are in conflict?
(a) He says that Achilles is a stranger to him now.
(b) He says that Achilles is his best self.
(c) He says that Achilles is half his soul.
(d) He says that Achilles is his trusted companion and he must honor his wishes.

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

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

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

5. After finally leaving for Troy, what does Achilles want to know about Patroclus’ childhood?
(a) What it was like when he killed Clysonymus.
(b) What it was like to be marked as a murderer.
(c) What it was like to be a foster child.
(d) What it was like to be exiled.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who tears down the wall around the Greeks’ ships?

2. What flaw does Odysseus identify in Achilles’ temperament?

3. How do the Trojans’ successes in battle affect the Greeks’ morale?

4. What mythical character does Patroclus say he feels like when he puts on Achilles’ armor?

5. What does Patroclus promise Achilles as he rides into battle?

Short Essay Questions

1. How do Achilles and Patroclus differ in their approach to the dead?

2. How does Achilles’ relationship to Hector change?

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

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

5. Why does Patroclus ask Achilles to claim Briseis?

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

7. What is Patroclus’ relationship with Briseis like?

8. How does Achilles react to Patroclus’ death?

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

10. What is Patroclus’ experience of fighting?

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