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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two. The Quest of the Golden Fleece, and Four Great Adventures.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When they reached home, Medea helped Jason take revenge on whom?
(a) Pelias, his father's murderer.
(b) Phanocles, his mother's murderer .
(c) Polyeidosis, his sister's murderer.
(d) Phemonoe, his brother's murderer.

2. When Alcyone's husband Ceyx was killed in ______________, the pitying gods sent her a dream to tell her the truth about what had happened to him.
(a) A flood.
(b) A storm at sea.
(c) A car accident.
(d) A chariot accident.

3. How does Medea save herself and Jason from the huge bronze man Talus?
(a) By calling for her mother.
(b) By tricking Talus.
(c) By calling the hounds of Hades to help.
(d) By hiding them in an enchanted tree.

4. What turned crimson in honor of Pyramus and Thisbe's great love?
(a) The white mulberry berries.
(b) The white strawberries.
(c) The white apple.
(d) The white poinsettia leaves.

5. Homer, an ancient Greek _________, provided a lot of important insight in his epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey.
(a) Novelist.
(b) Musician.
(c) Poet.
(d) Singer.

Short Answer Questions

1. Homeric hymns, written from the end of the ______________ century BC to the fifth or even fourth century BC, were written to honor various gods.

2. The Roman poet ________ wrote a lot about the myths, but presented them as silly stories that held no inner meaning.

3. Phaёthon was the son of the Sun-god ____________.

4. ______________ was a great inventor who built the labyrinth for the Minotaur.

5. Jason was the hero who set out to retrieve the Golden Fleece from whom?

(see the answer key)

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