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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4: Chapter 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who do Theseus and his friend find on the side of the road?
(a) A traveling group of entertainers.
(b) Merchants selling goods.
(c) A man beaten and left for dead.
(d) A woman penniless and starving.

2. Why did King Minos' men take the smaller boys from Troizen?
(a) To work in the fields as laborers.
(b) To train them to be soldiers.
(c) To be slaves for entertainment to run with the bulls.
(d) To punish the people of Troizen.

3. Why did someone give the bull medicine to make him mad?
(a) This person wagered money on a death in the arena.
(b) This person wanted Theseus dead.
(c) This person wanted all of the bull dancers to die.
(d) This person wanted the bull dead.

4. What age is Theseus as he narrates the story?
(a) An old man.
(b) A teenager.
(c) A child.
(d) A young man.

5. What is the name of the palace where the bull dancers will be training?
(a) Hellene.
(b) Knosses.
(c) Nisos.
(d) Pylas.

Short Answer Questions

1. While training to become a bull dancer, what does Theseus beg Poseidon to make him?

2. What do the people of the town pick someone to do every year?

3. How is Theseus' grandfather feeling when Theseus comes to visit him?

4. With what does Theseus kill the king?

5. Theseus has heard that if a dancer lasts _____ years the goddess sets them free.

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