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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. Why does Apollo make Achilles chase him all over the plain?
(a) To give the Trojans time to help their women and children flee.
(b) To give the Trojans time to make their walls stronger.
(c) To give the Trojans time to collect their dead.
(d) To give the Trojans time to enter the city.

2. What do Athena and Poseidon urge Achilles to do after he has angered the river god?
(a) Focus on pushing the battle to Troy.
(b) Focus on preventing more Greek ships from dying.
(c) Focus on saving the Greek forces.
(d) Focus on the war.

3. Who does Apollo disguise himself as in order to delay Achilles from fighting Hector?
(a) Lycaon, son of Zeus.
(b) Lycaon, son of King Priam.
(c) Lycaon, son of King Troy.
(d) Lycaon, son of King Agamemnon.

4. Who wins the spear throwing event in the Funeral Games?
(a) Odysseus.
(b) Ajax.
(c) Diomedes.
(d) Agamemnon.

5. Who delivers the news of Patroclus' death to Achilles?
(a) Menelaus.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Antilochos.
(d) Apollo.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hera do to Poseidon?

2. How long does Achilles hold the Greek army back so Priam can bury Hector?

3. Who comes to grieve Patroclus' death with Achilles?

4. What does Apollo forbid Hector to do when fighting Achilles after Patroclus has died?

5. What do the Trojans do to the Greek ships after Hector has had strength breathed into him by a god?

Short Essay Questions

1. What is the goal of Zeus' plan, as he tells it to Hera?

2. What activities follow the burial of Patroclus?

3. Why is Achilles' mother sad when she speaks to Achilles after Patroclus' death?

4. What causes Achilles' new understanding of suffering in Book 24?

5. Why does pride contribute to Hector's death?

6. What is Agamemnon's state of mind in Book 14, and what is his suggestion?

7. After Patroclus' death, what does Zeus do when he sees Patroclus' horses mourning?

8. After Patroclus' death, why is Achilles feeling guilty?

9. How is Patroclus killed?

10. In Book 15, while the gods are being informed of Zeus' plan, what are the Trojans and the Greeks doing?

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