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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 13: The Fall of Troy | Book 13: Hecuba, Polyxena, and Polydorus | Book 13: Memnon.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does everything that Midas touches turn into?
(a) Fire.
(b) Gold.
(c) Water.
(d) Chocolate.

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

3. How does Clytie respond to the Sun's affair with Leucothoe?
(a) Clytie has Leucothoe buried alive.
(b) Clytie extinguishes the Sun.
(c) Clytie tears Leucothoe's heart out.
(d) Clytie kills herself from the anguish.

4. After visiting a man named Lycaon, what disastrous event does Jupiter create to wipe out humanity?
(a) A tornado.
(b) A monsoon.
(c) A flood.
(d) A fire.

5. Where is Achilles struck by an arrow, killing him?
(a) In the neck.
(b) In the stomach.
(c) In the elbow.
(d) In the heel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Pronce's relationship to Philomena?

2. What is the name of the king who rules over Alcathous?

3. Why does Apollo kill Coronis?

4. What job does Ganymede take over when he lives with Jupiter?

5. Who does Pronce kill in order to get back at her husband, Tereus?

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