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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Patroclus most interested in learning from Chiron?

2. How would you characterize the dynamic between Achilles and Patroclus?

3. What does Achilles say has been prophesied about his martial skills?

4. After Achilles and Patroclus turn 16, what question does Achilles ask his mother?

5. What other hero has Chiron taught?

Short Essay Questions

1. What question does Odysseus pose to Tyndareus, to complicate the suits for Helen’s hand?

2. How do Achilles and Patroclus bring their relationship to its first crisis?

3. How does Achilles show Patroclus another way of looking at the death of Clysonymus?

4. What leverage do Odysseus and Diomedes use to get Achilles to go to Troy?

5. Why does Patroclus’ father take him to bid for Tyndareus’ hand in marriage?

6. How does Patroclus come to kill the boy whose death gets him exiled?

7. What is Patroclus’ status at the opening of the novel?

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

9. Where does Achilles get abducted to, after the news comes from Mycenae, and how does Patroclus find him?

10. How is Achilles’ identity unmasked?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Debate the proposition Chiron articulates, that no life matters more than any other. Patroclus says that there is no solution to this question, that whichever way you choose, you lose. Is there are an answer to the question, of whether this statement is correct? What must one lose in answering it one way or another?

Essay Topic 2

Use this book to evaluate the five-star rating system typically used for books. Is a five-star system sufficient to a book like this? Would you need to have sub-topics for the rating system, for plot, characterization, language, etc? What other sub-topics would you need? What value or importance gets lost in a five-star scale? Design a scale that would be better for this book.

Essay Topic 3

Achilles is great in his own right as a warrior, but he is also the lead actor in a huge supporting cast, and he does not have to be all things to all people. What are the key supporting roles that go into making Achilles the Ariston Achaion?

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