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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who has stolen Aeneas' daughters and forced them into slavery?
(a) Bacchus.
(b) Agamemnon.
(c) Ulysses.
(d) Ajax.
2. Which goddess convinces the nymphs to transform the gates of Rome back to their original position?
(a) Aphrodite.
(b) Circe.
(c) Venus.
(d) Juno.
3. How is Acis killed?
(a) He is starved by the nymph Hunger.
(b) He is smashed by a giant boulder.
(c) He is poisoned by a snake bite.
(d) He is drowned in a stormy sea.
4. What does Circe transform the soldiers scouting her island into?
(a) Vultures.
(b) Pigs.
(c) Deer.
(d) Fish.
5. How does Glaucus respond to Circe when she offers herself to him?
(a) He is excited.
(b) He is repulsed.
(c) He is saddened.
(d) He is apathetic.
6. Which of the following is the way that Cipius finds himself altered by the gods.
(a) He grew horns on his head.
(b) He began to moo like a cow rather than speak.
(c) He grew a forked tail, which he attemtped to hide in his trousers.
(d) His hands were transformed to hooves.
7. What is the name of the nymph sent to Alcyone to inform her of Ceyx's death?
(a) Whisper.
(b) Echo.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Dream.
8. Who rescues Ulysses from Circe's evil magic, allowing him to rescue his men?
(a) Jupiter.
(b) Pluto.
(c) Mercury.
(d) Neptune.
9. What animal makes up half of Pan's body?
(a) Bull.
(b) Horse.
(c) Donkey.
(d) Goat.
10. What do the gods say that Laomedon must do to his daughter Hesion?
(a) Sacrifice her.
(b) Burn her at the stake.
(c) Marry her.
(d) Drown her.
11. Which of the following is NOT an argument that Ajax gives when fighting for the armor?
(a) His fighting history.
(b) His strong body.
(c) His battle scars.
(d) His ancestral lines.
12. How does Adonis die?
(a) He is trampled to death by stampeding livestock.
(b) He transforms into a flower and lives forever.
(c) He is mauled to death in the woods.
(d) He is drowned by an angry water nymph.
13. Which of the following is NOT an argument that Pythagoras gives against the practice of eating meat?
(a) Nothing ever dies.
(b) It is a savage practice.
(c) Man could be eating his reincarnated relatives.
(d) It causes animals to suffer.
14. How does the enemy of Rome get in to defeat the city?
(a) Jupiter unlocked the gate.
(b) Mercury scorched the gates of Rome, melting the metal.
(c) Neptune gave the enemy wings to fly over the gates.
(d) Pluto made the enemy invisible so they could sneak past the gates' guards.
15. What soldier is Cycnus worried has infuriated the goddess Diana?
(a) Paris.
(b) Caenis.
(c) Agamemnon.
(d) Achilles.
Short Answer Questions
1. Where does Scylla hide out after her transformation?
2. Where does Circe find Scylla when she sets out to poison her?
3. How does Ciprius feel about being exiled from the land?
4. What does Theseus smash over Eurytus' head, killing him?
5. What does Pygmalion sculpt his wife out of?
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