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

2. How does Patroclus describe the appearance of Achilles’ hair as he is announced to the Greeks in the harbor?
(a) Like gold.
(b) Like a lion.
(c) Like silver.
(d) Like fire.

3. What does Agamemnon do, that almost starts a mutiny?
(a) Withdraws from the fighting.
(b) Seizes his soldiers’ war prizes.
(c) Murders a disrespectful soldier.
(d) Pushes his men too hard with too many days of fighting in a row.

4. Why is it unlawful for Agamemnon to claim Chriseis as a war prize?
(a) She is related to Priam.
(b) Her family is related by marriage to Agamemnon’s.
(c) She is consecrated to a god.
(d) She is the daughter of a powerful king.

5. 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.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who is first in line for the distribution of war prizes?

3. What does Achilles do that injures Hector?

4. How does the duel between Menelaus and Paris end?

5. Who would be Ariston Achaion if Achilles were not?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Achilles react to Patroclus’ death?

2. How does the battle go, once Achilles is not fighting?

3. What is Achilles’ answer to the situation Agamemnon and Patroclus have set up?

4. How does Achilles prevent the mutiny in the fourth year of the war?

5. Describe the tension that is created in the meeting between Achilles and Agamemnon.

6. How does Achilles’ relationship to Hector change?

7. Achilles visits his mother to learn more about the prophecy regarding his death. What is his response to this visit and Thetis’ news?

8. How do the Greeks react when Achilles withdraws from the fighting?

9. What is it that prevents the Greeks from sailing to Troy from Aulis?

10. Why does Patroclus ask Achilles to claim Briseis?

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