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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The Titan called Cronus fought his father and took his power. Fearing that his children would do the same when they grew up, what did he do to each newborn baby?
(a) He suffocated it.
(b) He buried it.
(c) He swallowed it.
(d) He poisoned it.

2. Phaёthon was the son of the Sun-god ____________.
(a) Agathon.
(b) Hermesianax.
(c) Helios.
(d) Apollo.

3. Whose family survived Zeus' anger?
(a) Aristophanes'.
(b) Prometheus'.
(c) Zeus'.
(d) Diogenes'.

4. Otus and Ephialtes were ___________ who wanted to prove that they were the equals of the gods.
(a) Chimaera.
(b) Elves.
(c) Dwarves.
(d) Giants.

5. Pyramus and Thisbe agreed to meet by _________.
(a) A spruce tree.
(b) A pine tree.
(c) An oak tree.
(d) A mulberry tree.

6. Why did the Greeks create their myths, initially?
(a) As a way of understanding the world.
(b) As a way of understanding the heavens.
(c) As a way of teaching moral lessons.
(d) As a way of connecting to the gods.

7. _________ was the king of the gods and ruler of Olympus.
(a) Hera/Juno.
(b) Poseidon/Neptune.
(c) Zeus/Neptune.
(d) Zeus/Jupiter.

8. Theseus became a good and just king of _________ and took part in many more adventures, such as the Calydonian Boar hunt and the fight between Centaurs and Lapiths.
(a) Athens.
(b) Rome.
(c) Delphi.
(d) Sparta.

9. Hercules was the son of Zeus and whom?
(a) A mortal woman.
(b) A nymph.
(c) Athena.
(d) Hera.

10. Homeric hymns, written from the end of the ______________ century BC to the fifth or even fourth century BC, were written to honor various gods.
(a) Fourth.
(b) Eighth.
(c) Sixth.
(d) Second.

11. The Roman poet ________ wrote a lot about the myths, but presented them as silly stories that held no inner meaning.
(a) Homer.
(b) Cercops.
(c) Ovid.
(d) Oppian.

12. Why did Hercules kill his wife and children?
(a) He was tortured into killing them.
(b) Hera had put him under a spell.
(c) He was framed for the killing of his family.
(d) He was evil.

13. To whom was Helen married?
(a) King Theseus of Athens.
(b) King Menelaus of Sparta.
(c) King Perseus of Sparta.
(d) King Midas of Athens.

14. ____________ was the other brother of Zeus and ruler of the underworld, where mortals went when they died.
(a) Poseidon/Neptune.
(b) Hades/Pluto.
(c) Hera/Juno.
(d) Athena/Minerva.

15. Achilles could not stand the slight to his honor that Agamemnon brought about by ______________.
(a) Claiming his daughter.
(b) Claiming his property.
(c) Claiming his slave-girl.
(d) Claiming his wife.

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened when King Minos locked this inventor up in his own labyrinth?

2. Theseus saved Athens from the cruelty of _______________, who demanded a tribute of seven maidens and seven young men every nine years to feed to the Minotaur.

3. Pygmalion fell in love with the statue of a woman that he had created. Venus took pity on his aching heart and turned the statue into a real, living woman. Pygmalion married her and named her ____________.

4. According to the Greeks, in the beginning there was only __________.

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

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