The Song of Achilles Test | Final Test - Easy

Madeline Miller
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The Song of Achilles Test | Final Test - Easy

Madeline Miller
This set of Lesson Plans consists of approximately 130 pages of tests, essay questions, lessons, and other teaching materials.
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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Patroclus say Briseis is different from his mother?
(a) Her wariness.
(b) Her sharp attention.
(c) Her skill in cooking.
(d) Her peaceful temperament.

2. What does Achilles ask Patroclus to forgive him for?
(a) His hard-heartedness.
(b) Wanting to know about death.
(c) His disobedience to Agamemnon.
(d) His willingness to kill.

3. How does Agamemnon want to start his campaign against Troy?
(a) With a siege.
(b) With raiding.
(c) With battle in the plains of Troy.
(d) With negotiations.

4. How many men does Achilles kill on his first day in battle?
(a) 12.
(b) 6.
(c) 10.
(d) 24.

5. What mythical character does Patroclus say he feels like when he puts on Achilles’ armor?
(a) Daphne.
(b) Pasiphae.
(c) Heracles.
(d) The minotaur.

6. How long has Patroclus lived with Achilles, by the time Achilles and Agamemnon are angry at each other?
(a) 18 years.
(b) 27 years.
(c) 12 years.
(d) 15 years.

7. What does Achilles say he needs Agamemnon to do in order to fix the rift between them?
(a) Apologize to Achilles publicly.
(b) Give Achilles his own weight in gold.
(c) Beg for forgiveness.
(d) Give Achilles the first place in battle.

8. How does Patroclus kill this warrior?
(a) Impaling him on another warrior’s spear.
(b) Knocking him off his chariot so he hits his head on a rock.
(c) Piercing him with a spear.
(d) Slitting his throat with a sword.

9. Where is Achilles and Patroclus’s camp situated?
(a) Beside Agamemnon’s in the center of the camp.
(b) Nearest the walls of Troy.
(c) At the heart of the marketplace.
(d) At the far end of the sandy beach.

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

11. Why does Hector fight the Trojans?
(a) For fame, not fortune.
(b) For fate, not fortune.
(c) For family, not fame.
(d) For fortune, not family.

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

13. What does Achilles say Peleus told him, about how to think of the men he will fight?
(a) To treat them as dust.
(b) To see the divinity in each one.
(c) To treat them as animals.
(d) To respect the spirit of each one.

14. What task does Odysseus assign the men to do, to distract them from their discontentment?
(a) Build a wall around the ships.
(b) Clear a forest for firewood.
(c) Collect the ashes of their dead and honor them.
(d) Prepare a feast of thanksgiving.

15. What color cloak is Paris clothed in?
(a) Red.
(b) Gold.
(c) Purple.
(d) White.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who oversees the infirmary where Patroclus finds work?

2. How does the second duel, between Hector and Ajax, end?

3. To what does Patroclus attribute his indifference to warfare?

4. How does Patroclus describe the feeling in the camps as the years drag on?

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

(see the answer keys)

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