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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.