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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 6: Arachne | Book 6: Niobe | Book 6: The Lycian Peasants | Book 6: Marsyas.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Minerva disguise herself as when she visits Arachne?
(a) A young girl.
(b) A swan.
(c) An old woman.
(d) A princess.

2. Which of the following is NOT an explicit instruction from Jupiter on how the re-population of the earth is to happen?
(a) Wear your garments loose.
(b) Cover your head.
(c) Use your hands to dig to the wet soil of earth.
(d) Throw the bones of your mother behind your back.

3. What type of beast does Apollo give Cononis' baby to?
(a) An ogre.
(b) A giant.
(c) A centaur.
(d) A mermaid.

4. How does Juno punish the servants living in Athamas and Ino's house?
(a) She feeds them to poisonous snakes.
(b) She turns them to stone.
(c) She drowns them in a river.
(d) She transforms them into rats.

5. Why does Apollo kill Coronis?
(a) Because she has been unfaithful.
(b) Because she rebuked his advances.
(c) Because she lied about her identity.
(d) Because she has stolen from him.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does Cupid's first arrow hit?

2. After Juno is so enraged with Tiresias' answer to her question, what does she do to him?

3. When the nymphs come to bury Narcissus' body, what is the only thing that they find by the pool of water?

4. What does Jupiter transform Io into in the attempts to quench his wife's suspicion?

5. What type of tree does Jupiter change Daphne into in order to protect her?

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