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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. Where do the furies, including Tisiphone, live?
(a) In the water pods.
(b) In the tree branches.
(c) In the underworld.
(d) In the clouds.

2. What are the sailors aboard Acoetes' ship transformed into after their failed attempt to kidnap Bacchus?
(a) Dolphins.
(b) Sea urchins.
(c) Mermen.
(d) Starfish.

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

4. During the competition, what does Arachne's portrait exemplify?
(a) The dangers of the underworld.
(b) The violence of the Olympian gods.
(c) The beauty of the Athens landscape.
(d) The glory of the Olympian gods.

5. During the competition, what does Minerva's portrait exemplify?
(a) The violence of the Olympian gods.
(b) The glory of the Olympian gods.
(c) The beauty of the Athens landscape.
(d) The dangers of the underworld.

Short Answer Questions

1. In her conversation with the raven, what does the crow claim to have been before her transformation?

2. What is the name of the nymph that first falls in love with Narcissus?

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

4. Why does Juno become enraged with Athamas and Ino?

5. Which of the following is NOT an explicit instruction from Jupiter on how the re-population of the earth is to happen?

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