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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 does Agamemnon offer Achilles, in order to fulfill the gods’ desires, and liberate the fleet to sail to Troy?
2. Who will be the next Aristos Archaion?
3. How does Patroclus kill this warrior?
4. What task does Odysseus assign the men to do, to distract them from their discontentment?
5. Where does Agamemnon situate Achilles in his line of battle?
Short Essay Questions
1. What is Patroclus’ relationship with Briseis like?
2. Why does Patroclus ask Achilles to claim Briseis?
3. What is Achilles’ experiences of raiding like?
4. How does Achilles prevent the mutiny in the fourth year of the war?
5. What are Patroclus’ feelings during the crisis over Chriseis and Briseis?
6. How does the battle go, once Achilles is not fighting?
7. Whati s Achilles’ reaction to Patroclus’ interview with Agamemnon?
8. How does Thetis help Achilles’ renown when the Greek ships land at Aulis?
9. How does Patroclus try to moderate the effects of Achilles’ withdrawal?
10. How does Chriseis create a crisis for the Greeks?
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
Who is the audience for The Song of Achilles? What is the ideal reader for The Song of Achilles likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?
Essay Topic 3
Write an evaluative review of The Song of Achilles. What is this book’s place in culture? What are its uses? What are its limitations?
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