Ransom Quizzes

Ransom Quiz 1

1 Why does Achilles look out to the sea?
To feel close to his mother

To anticipate the invading Greek ships

To plan for when he returns home

To feel close to home
2 What does the difference between the earth and the sea represent?
The difference between Greece and Troy

The difference between him and Hector

The difference between him and Patroclus

The difference between Achilles' father and his mother
3 What does it mean for Achilles to be his father's son?
To be a farmer, but immortal

To be a prince, but mortal

To be a farmer, but mortal

To be a prince, but immortal
4 How long has the war been going on?
One year

Nine months

Nine years

Ten years
5 What's significant about the beach as a location?
It's where the Trojans landed

It's the meeting of earth and sea

It's where his father brought him as a child

It's where Hector died
6 Which ghosts haunt Achilles?
Peleus and Hector

Patroclus and Hector

Hector and Priam

Patroclus and Priam
7 In what way is Achilles' and Patroclus' meeting a result of them both having killed?
Achilles is in exile while Patroclus comes back from a hunt

Patroclus is in exile while Achilles killed a friend

Achilles killed a friend and so did Patroclus

Achilles came back from a hunt and Patroclus killed a friend
8 What is the nature of Achilles' and Patroclus' relationship?
They're cousins

They are decent friends

They're reluctant enemies

They have an incredibly close bound
9 Why are Achilles and Agamemnon fighting?
Achilles thinks Agamemnon disrespected him

Achilles killed Agamemnon's slave girl

Achilles had to ransom his slave girl

Agamemnon killed Patroclus
10 What does Achilles' response to the fight between him and Agamemnon suggest about Achilles?
That he's patient

That he's petulant

That he's annoying

That he's cruel
11 Why is Patroclus upset with Achilles?
Because he refuses to let the Myrmidons fight

Because he didn't stand up to Agamemnon enough

Because he doesn't like the other Greeks

Because he wants to wear his own armor
12 What is Patroclus' solution to the conflict between him and Achilles?
For him to lead the Myrmidons in battle

For Achilles to lead the Myrmidons in battle

For Achilles to go to Agamemnon and try to work something out

For him to go to Agamemnon and ask for forgiveness
13 Why does Achilles feel strange about giving into Patroclus' request?
He feels shamed by the fact that Patroclus is being mature and he isn't

He's still extremely angry with Agamemnon

He feels a strange foreboding

He doesn't like the idea of someone else wearing his armor
14 Who are the Myrmidons?
Achilles' men

Patroclus' men

Agamemnon's men

Hector's men
15 What mistake happens when Patroclus leads Achilles' men into battle?
He gets mistaken for Achilles and Hector kills him

He accidentally mistakes Diomedes for Hector and kills him

Achilles realizes he forgot to send Patroclus out with good armor

Hector is mistaken for Achilles and the Myrmidons attack Patroclus instead
16 How does Achilles react to the loss of Patroclus?
He grieves uncontrollably

He is outraged immediately

He tries to remain stoic

He is indifferent
17 What does Patroclus tell Achilles to do after his death?
To make sure the Greeks win the war

To take care of his family

To avenge him

To let go of him
18 What weird doubling happens when Achilles kills Hector?
Hector sees the death of someone he values as much as Achilles valued Patroclus

Hector looks like Achilles' son

Hector is wearing Achilles' armor so it's as if he's killing himself

Hector looks like Patroclus
19 What does Hector tell Achilles as he is dying?
That Achilles has a short time left to live

That Achilles will grow old

That Priam will avenge him

That he will never be reunited with Patroclus
20 Given Achilles' actions afterwards, does he heed Patroclus' advice?
No

Halfway

Yes

It depends on how you look at it
21 What does Achilles do with Hector's body?
He drags it around Patroclus' funeral pyre

He fails to respect it

He ties it to the back of the chariot

All of the above
22 What is supernatural about what happens to Hector's body after each night?
It disappears mysteriously in the middle of the night

It somehow appears in the back of the cart

It gains the ability to heal people

It never deteriorates
23 How does Achilles feel after abusing Hector's body?
Indifferent

Satisifed

Furious

Tormented
24 What does Achilles associate his heaviness of spirit with?
Troy

The sea

The earth

Hector's body
25 Given the other elemental imagery, what might Achilles "waiting for a break" also reference?
Waves

Lightning

Wildfires

Wind

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