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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. After Juno is so enraged with Tiresias' answer to her question, what does she do to him?
(a) She mutes him.
(b) She shrinks him.
(c) She blinds him.
(d) She deafens him.

2. What does Hercules break off of Achelous during their battle?
(a) His wings.
(b) His collarbones.
(c) His horn.
(d) His nose.

3. When Apollo goes missing, what does Mercury steal from him?
(a) His flocks.
(b) His music.
(c) His gold.
(d) His wife.

4. In what "age of time" are all the creatures of the earth living harmoniously with one another?
(a) The Bronze Age.
(b) The Iron Age.
(c) The Silver Age.
(d) The Gold Age.

5. As punishment for harming a nymph, what is Dyrope slowly transformed into?
(a) A flower.
(b) A bear.
(c) A tree.
(d) A mountain.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. After Minerva begins to beat her, how does Arachne commit suicide?

3. What is Minos searching for in Athens?

4. How does Pyramus kill himself?

5. In Ovid's version of the creation of the earth, what are the first two forces to be separated?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does the competition between Minerva and Arachne progress?

2. How does Io come to be pregnant with Erasmus?

3. How is Hercules killed?

4. What prophecy does Meleager's mother remember in regards to her son's life and death?

5. According to Ovid, how is the earth created?

6. Who are Philemon and Baucis?

7. What is the result of Phaeton's visit to the Sun?

8. What is Narcissus' reaction to Echo's advances, and how does she respond?

9. What does Minos continually have a recurring dream about?

10. How is Pentheus killed?

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