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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Daedalus build to contain the Minotaur?
(a) The Labyrinth.
(b) The Ten-Mile Maze.
(c) The Golden Cage.
(d) The Serpentine Garden.

2. Who is Medea's father?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Aeetes.
(c) Hermes.
(d) Perses.

3. Who is Circe's grandfather?
(a) Oceanus.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Kronos.
(d) Poseidon.

4. Why is Aiaia significant to Circe?
(a) She knows it is where Helios proved his loyalty to Zeus, vanquishing a Titan and drenching the land in blood.
(b) She knows it is where she will have six children someday.
(c) She knows it is where her mother was born.
(d) She knows it is where she was fated to die eventually.

5. Who does the fisherman who becomes a god spurn Circe in favor of?
(a) Perse.
(b) Scylla.
(c) Athena.
(d) Pasiphae.

6. Why has Daedalus been sent for Circe?
(a) To bring her back to Helios's halls.
(b) To bring her to Crete to attend to her sister Pasiphae's birth.
(c) To bring her to the bottom of the ocean to face Trygon.
(d) To bring her to Crete for execution.

7. Why is Medea cursed when she arrives at Aiaia?
(a) She made a deal with the devil.
(b) She killed her mother by mistake.
(c) She tried to kill herself.
(d) She murdered her own brother.

8. What phrase of Daedalus's does Circe remember in Chapter 12 while exiled on Aiaia?
(a) A penny saved is a penny earned.
(b) Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
(c) A goddess's value is in her deeds.
(d) A golden cage is still a cage.

9. What does Daedalus give Circe as a gift?
(a) A scythe.
(b) A jewel.
(c) A loom.
(d) A ship.

10. What skill does Circe cultivate during her early days on Aiaia?
(a) Kite-making.
(b) Cooking.
(c) Painting.
(d) Sorcery.

11. What is Circe's father's hall made out of?
(a) Black obsidian.
(b) Mirrors.
(c) Golden threads.
(d) White Marble.

12. What herb does Odysseus bring to Aiaia with him in Chapter 15?
(a) Castor.
(b) Thyme.
(c) Periwinkle.
(d) Moly.

13. Where does Pasiphae get married?
(a) Crete.
(b) Rome.
(c) Egypt.
(d) Persia.

14. What does Scylla transform into as a result of Circe's slipping herbs in her bath water?
(a) A terrible sea monster with tentacles.
(b) A toad.
(c) A turtle.
(d) A snake.

15. Who is Circe's mother?
(a) Thythus.
(b) Pasiphae.
(c) Athena.
(d) Perse.

Short Answer Questions

1. What game does Helios habitually play?

2. Who killed Ariadne?

3. Who is the king of all gods and men?

4. Why is Circe so happy to see the sailors who have lost their way and come to her for aid in Chapter 14?

5. Why are monsters a boon to gods?

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