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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Six. The Less Important Myths - Midas and Others.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. How is the creation myth of the Greeks peculiar?
(a) The gods had different personalities.
(b) The gods were not kind to mankind.
(c) The gods did not create the universe or the world.
(d) The gods are more powerful than man.
2. Earlier heroes were superhuman individuals who fought alone against monsters and strange creatures, while the Trojan heroes fought whom?
(a) Other men as part of an army.
(b) Other men in small militias.
(c) Monsters and strange creatures as part of an army.
(d) Other men, alone.
3. Out of this came Night and Death, then Light, followed by Earth (_________) and Heaven (Ouranos, or Uranus).
(a) Xenophon.
(b) Ephesus.
(c) Gala.
(d) Parmenides.
4. Who was the only Trojan prince to escape?
(a) Aeschylus,
(b) Aeneas.
(c) Agathias.
(d) Adaeus.
5. Orithyia was carried away against her will by whom?
(a) The god of the South Wind, Boreas.
(b) The god of the North Wind, Boreas.
(c) The god of the East Wind, Boreas.
(d) The god of the West Wind, Boreas.
Short Answer Questions
1. Aeneas stayed with her for a time, but eventually ___________ sent a message telling him to remember his great destiny and to sail for Italy.
2. This chapter describes a series of myths concerning the earliest kings and queens of Athens before who became king?
3. The gods were furious and sent him to ______________, a section for punishment in the underworld.
4. Zeus and the other gods took over when Zeus dethroned ____________ and seized his power.
5. Oedipus saved the city from _____________, a monster that asked riddles of travelers who passed by.
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