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6. What happens at the end of Book 23?

  • Achilles hands out gold to all the competitors and everyone is happy.
  • Athene and Hera arrive with food and everyone leaves happy.
  • Achilles and Antilochus reconcile and everyone is happy.
  • Trygaeus wins the rest of the games and everyone is jealous.

7. How does Achilles light Patroclus' funeral pyre?

  • He prays for assistance from the winds to light it.
  • He orders each of the Myrmidons to hold a burning arrow to the pyre to light it.
  • He captures 100 Trojan women and orders them to light it.
  • He uses Hector's bones form the base of the pyre, which he lights.

8. How does Diomedes win the chariot race?

  • Athene helps him by robbing the loser of victory.
  • He convinces Iris to cast bad omens on the competition.
  • He makes a libation to Apollo who fires a burning arrow at the opposition.
  • He persuades Nestor to distract the competition by calling out bad omens.

9. What does Achilles have sacrificed at Patroclus' funeral?

  • 20 Greek slave girls.
  • 12 Trojan captives.
  • 4 Archaean priests.
  • 100 Trojan women.

10. What does Achilles organise for Patroclus after the burial of his bones?

  • A sacrifice of one hundred goats.
  • A Funeral Feast.
  • A Funeral Games.
  • A wedding ceremony for the lost souls.