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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 15: The Death of Numa | Book 15: Hippolytus | Book 15: Cipus.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How does Ciprius feel about being exiled from the land?
(a) He was saddened.
(b) He was pleased.
(c) He was apathetic.
(d) He was terrified.

2. How does Peleus eventually tame Thesion?
(a) He ties her up.
(b) He soothes her with poetry.
(c) He paints a portrait of her.
(d) He overpowers her.

3. What does Juno enlist Tisiphone to do?
(a) Turn Athamas and Ino mad.
(b) Steal all the riches of Athamas and Ino.
(c) Turn Athamas and Ino blind.
(d) Kill all of Athamas and Ino's livestock.

4. What is interesting about Cycnus' skin?
(a) It is the color of gold.
(b) It is transparent.
(c) It is impenetrable.
(d) It flakes off his body when touched.

5. Which of the following gods creates the four seasons for man?
(a) Saturn.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Olympus.
(d) Jupiter.

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Clytie respond to the Sun's affair with Leucothoe?

2. What gift is Sibyl given from Apollo?

3. What does Minerva disguise herself as when she visits Arachne?

4. What is the name of the goddess that threatens Niobe?

5. What animal, when mated with a human, produces a Minotaur?

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