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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What announcement does Peleus make to the gathered company upon Achilles and Patroclus' return?
(a) The coming-of-age of his daughters.
(b) The coming marriage of Achilles .
(c) The advent of a plague on his people’s crops.
(d) The war in Mycenae.

2. How does Deidameia treat Patroclus when she interviews him?
(a) She is imperious and angry.
(b) She is flattering and ingratiating.
(c) She is disconsolate and dismayed.
(d) She is fawning and subservient.

3. Who tells Patroclus where Achilles has been taken, when he disappears after their intimacies?
(a) Phoinix.
(b) Peleus.
(c) Chiron.
(d) Thetis.

4. How do Odysseus and Diomedes compel Achilles to come to Troy?
(a) By drugging him and kidnapping him in the night.
(b) By forcing Patroclus to come.
(c) By force.
(d) By threatning to spread word that they found him in women’s dresses.

5. What does Patroclus feel about this expectation?
(a) Desire.
(b) Curiosity.
(c) Rebelliousness .
(d) Repulsion.

6. Why does Achilles stop doing his drills when Patroclus enters?
(a) No one sees him fight.
(b) He does not want to be seen as a god.
(c) He wants to teach Patroclus, now.
(d) He does not want to give away secrets.

7. Where does Achilles’ mother live?
(a) Scyros.
(b) Phthia.
(c) Mt. Olympus.
(d) Under the sea.

8. What does Thetis tell Patroclus?
(a) That he will die soon.
(b) That he might live forever beside Achilles.
(c) That he has divine blood as well.
(d) That he can never share Achilles’ fame.

9. How does Achilles explain his interest in Patroclus to his father?
(a) He says that he is knows important things.
(b) He says that he is surprising.
(c) He says that he is a good sparring partner.
(d) He says that he born is of high blood.

10. What nickname does Peleus give Patroclus?
(a) Snake tongue.
(b) Mouse feet.
(c) Owl eyes.
(d) Cat whiskers.

11. What distinction does Peleus offer Achilles?
(a) Two more years to learn from Chiron in Pelion.
(b) Leadership of the Phthian war party.
(c) Safe haven in Phthia during the war.
(d) Leadership of the Greek war party.

12. What does Patroclus tell Lycomedes his name is?
(a) Patroclus.
(b) Chironides.
(c) Peleid.
(d) Menoitides.

13. What reason does Achilles give for his confidence that he will be the first happy hero?
(a) His love for Patroclus.
(b) His boyish delight.
(c) His skill in battle.
(d) His mother’s protection.

14. What does Patroclus want Achilles to do about going to Troy to fight?
(a) He wants him to run away with him.
(b) He wants him to go to Troy but not to fight.
(c) He wants him not to go to Troy.
(d) He wants him to fight and win his glory.

15. How does Chiron handle Thetis’ demand that Patroclus not train with Achilles?
(a) He gives the choice to Achilles.
(b) He ignores it.
(c) He appeals to Zeus.
(d) He tells Thetis he will not honor it.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Patroclus’ name mean?

2. What does Chiron give Achilles as a gift for his expedition to Troy?

3. How long does it take before Achilles befriends Patroclus?

4. How does Achilles excuse Patroclus from the oath he swore?

5. How does Odysseus meet Patroclus?

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