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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Works and Days.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who should give people wealth according to Hesiod's poem 'Works and Days'?
(a) No one.
(b) Banks.
(c) Buisness owners.
(d) The Gods.

2. What happens to Prometheus' liver every day?
(a) It dies.
(b) It reforms.
(c) It changes color.
(d) It comes to life.

3. Who gives birth to Themisto, Pronoe and Nemertes?
(a) Nerues.
(b) Hercules.
(c) Doris.
(d) Nereus and Doris.

4. What does Zeus provide man with in 'Works and Days'?
(a) Guilt.
(b) Reason.
(c) Hate.
(d) Lust.

5. What reputation should men avoid according to 'Works and Days'?
(a) A bad reputation.
(b) A good reputation.
(c) A pious reputation.
(d) A stingy reputation.

Short Answer Questions

1. What animal marks the time for plowing?

2. Who, in 'Works and Days', should plow men pray to in order to obtain good crops?

3. How many kinds of strife exist according to 'Works and Days'?

4. Who kills Chimaera?

5. How does Heaven's son betray her in 'Theogony'?

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