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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. How are Achilles and Patroclus expected to treat girls?
2. What does Thetis say about Odysseus’ insights?
3. How does Clysonymus die?
4. What does Chiron give Achilles as a gift for his expedition to Troy?
5. Who does Peleus claim to have fought beside?
Short Essay Questions
1. How do Achilles and Patroclus come to be close?
2. How does the news of the war find Achilles and Patroclus on Scyros?
3. How does Patroclus end up fighting Achilles, and what is the outcome?
4. Describe Patroclus’ interaction with Achilles’ mother Thetis.
5. Describe Achilles’ relationship with Deidameia.
6. How do Achilles and Patroclus get called back to civilization?
7. Describe Achilles and Patroclus’ relationship with the girls in Peleus’ house.
8. How do Achilles and Patroclus bring their relationship to its first crisis?
9. What is Patroclus’ status at the opening of the novel?
10. What conundrum is Patroclus caught in, now that the army will be going to Troy?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Who is the audience for The Song of Achilles? What is the ideal reader for The Song of Achilles likely to think about the book’s main topics? How does this book try to affect the reader? What is it trying to teach him or her, or get him or her to do?
Essay Topic 2
When is The Song of Achilles most itself? What is its characteristic passage, or moment? What makes that moment or passage the most representative of the book as a whole? Are there any places where the book seems to depart from its typical self, as if to become a different book?
Essay Topic 3
Use this book to evaluate the five-star rating system typically used for books. Is a five-star system sufficient to a book like this? Would you need to have sub-topics for the rating system, for plot, characterization, language, etc? What other sub-topics would you need? What value or importance gets lost in a five-star scale? Design a scale that would be better for this book.
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