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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Bacchus transform the women of Thracian into in response to their actions against Orpheus?
(a) Trees.
(b) Birds.
(c) Locusts.
(d) Streams.

2. Which of the following adjectives best describes Myrrha?
(a) Beautiful.
(b) Evil.
(c) Quiet.
(d) Nervous.

3. Which of the following is NOT an argument that Pythagoras gives against the practice of eating meat?
(a) Nothing ever dies.
(b) Man could be eating his reincarnated relatives.
(c) It causes animals to suffer.
(d) It is a savage practice.

4. What is Anaxerta transformed into after she rebukes Iphis?
(a) Sapphire.
(b) Stone.
(c) Sand.
(d) Salt.

5. Which of the following is NOT one of the substances that Aeneas' daughters produce?
(a) Milk.
(b) Wine.
(c) Oil.
(d) Grain.

6. What does Venus give to Hippomenes to distract Atalanta?
(a) Silver coins.
(b) Jingling bells.
(c) Furry kittens.
(d) Golden apples.

7. What does Pygmalion sculpt his wife out of?
(a) Ivory.
(b) Granite.
(c) Limestone.
(d) Clay.

8. Which of the following is NOT an argument that Ulysses gives when fighting for the armor?
(a) His ancestral lines.
(b) His battle scars.
(c) His intelligence.
(d) His fighting history.

9. Who gives Romulus the gift of immortality after her restores his grandfather's throne?
(a) Venus.
(b) Jupiter.
(c) Pluto.
(d) Mercury.

10. Where does Circe find Scylla when she sets out to poison her?
(a) Sleeping in her bed.
(b) Swimming in the sea.
(c) Reading a book in a field.
(d) Eating under a grape tree.

11. Who rescues Ulysses from Circe's evil magic, allowing him to rescue his men?
(a) Pluto.
(b) Jupiter.
(c) Neptune.
(d) Mercury.

12. Why is Peleus exiled from Troy?
(a) For killing his brother.
(b) For stealing from Midas.
(c) For beating a donkey.
(d) For raping his wife.

13. Who sings a song for Eurydice that is so moving, even the harsh Fates begin to weep?
(a) Orpheus.
(b) Proserpina.
(c) Pluto.
(d) Venus.

14. Where does Orpheus go to attempt to win back his wife?
(a) The vally of the gods.
(b) The underworld.
(c) The heavens.
(d) Mount Olympus.

15. What slows down the Greeks as they trek toward Troy to find Paris?
(a) A storm.
(b) A famine.
(c) A hot desert.
(d) A pack of centaurs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does everything that Midas touches turn into?

2. How does the enemy of Rome get in to defeat the city?

3. How does Glaucus respond to Circe when she offers herself to him?

4. What lie is told about Iphis when she is born?

5. What is the name of the nymph sent to Alcyone to inform her of Ceyx's death?

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