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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. What skill do both Arachne and Minerva hold?
(a) Weaving.
(b) Singing.
(c) Painting.
(d) Sculpting.
2. After Juno is so enraged with Tiresias' answer to her question, what does she do to him?
(a) She blinds him.
(b) She mutes him.
(c) She deafens him.
(d) She shrinks him.
3. After Minerva begins to beat her, how does Arachne commit suicide?
(a) She holds her breath until she dies.
(b) She drinks poison.
(c) She hangs herself.
(d) She stabs herself through the heart.
4. What is Minos searching for in Athens?
(a) A scholar to study with him.
(b) An ally to fight with him.
(c) A woman to marry him.
(d) An artist to create with him.
5. In hearing of Mercury's affections for Herse, what goddess does Minerva transform herself into?
(a) Anger.
(b) Greed.
(c) Lust.
(d) Envy.
Short Answer Questions
1. What type of animal does Meleager kill, giving all of the credit to Atalanta?
2. What animal, when mated with a human, produces a Minotaur?
3. After Castillo is reunited with her son, what does Jupiter transform the pair into?
4. In her conversation with the raven, what does the crow claim to have been before her transformation?
5. What does Phaeton request from his father to prove the validity of their relationship?
Short Essay Questions
1. Who do Cupid's first two arrows shoot, and what is the outcome?
2. How does Europa come to be missing?
3. Why is the beautiful princess transformed into a Crow?
4. Why do Pyramus and Thisbe kill themselves?
5. How does Io come to be pregnant with Erasmus?
6. In what ways do the brave villagers in Crete attempt to kill the wild boar that has been terrorizing the village?
7. How does Minerva respond to Arachne's portrait of the gods?
8. According to Ovid, how is the earth created?
9. What condition does Jupiter come up with for the return of Proserpina from the underworld?
10. What is a Minotaur, and what is Minos' reaction to it?
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