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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 advice does Odysseus give Achilles regarding returning to the fight?
(a) To undermine Agamemnon’s authority by winning victories in the field.
(b) To take the high ground and keep himself alive as long as possible.
(c) To win friends among his people by protecting their lives.
(d) To let fate happen on his own terms, instead of being subject to it.

2. Who is first in line for the distribution of war prizes?
(a) Achilles.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Menelaus.
(d) Odysseus.

3. How does the second duel, between Hector and Ajax, end?
(a) They shake hands as friends.
(b) Hector crushes Ajax with a rock.
(c) Ajax is wounded and withdraws.
(d) Hector is wounded and withdraws.

4. What does Patroclus spend hours each day doing among the captives?
(a) Doctoring their injuries.
(b) Teaching them Greek.
(c) Learning about Trojan culture.
(d) Gathering intelligence about the Trojan defenses.

5. Who is the first Greek to kill a Trojan as the ships approach Troy?
(a) Achilles.
(b) Odysseus.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Phoinix.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many ships actually sailed for Troy to recapture Helen?

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

3. How does Achilles keep the men from leaving?

4. How does Patroclus describe his anger at Achilles for allowing Briseis to be taken?

5. Whose thigh does Patroclus see pierced with a spear?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Achilles’ relationship to Hector change?

2. What are Patroclus’ feelings during the crisis over Chriseis and Briseis?

3. Describe the Greeks’ arrival in Troy.

4. How does Patroclus try to moderate the effects of Achilles’ withdrawal?

5. Whati s Achilles’ reaction to Patroclus’ interview with Agamemnon?

6. Patroclus recalls Chiron saying that no man’s life is worth more than another’s. How does he settle the questions this philosophical statement raises, in light of Achilles’ conflict with Agamemnon?

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

8. Why does Patroclus ask Achilles to claim Briseis?

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

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

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