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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. Which of the following activities does Atalanta challenge her potential suitors to?
(a) A cookoff.
(b) A foot race.
(c) A weaving competition.
(d) A dance contest.

2. How is Acis killed?
(a) He is drowned in a stormy sea.
(b) He is starved by the nymph Hunger.
(c) He is smashed by a giant boulder.
(d) He is poisoned by a snake bite.

3. How does Adonis die?
(a) He is drowned by an angry water nymph.
(b) He is mauled to death in the woods.
(c) He is trampled to death by stampeding livestock.
(d) He transforms into a flower and lives forever.

4. What does the water nymph transform the attacking animals into?
(a) Gold.
(b) Marble.
(c) Ivory.
(d) Granite.

5. What does Circe transform Scylla's lower body into?
(a) Goat legs.
(b) Poisonous snakes.
(c) Dead fish.
(d) Mad dogs.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is Eurydice bitten by on the day of her wedding?

2. Which goddess convinces the nymphs to transform the gates of Rome back to their original position?

3. Where does Scylla hide out after her transformation?

4. To whom does the council award the armor that has been fought over by Ajax and Ulysses?

5. Which family member does Myrrha inappropriately fall in love with?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Midas find himself with the ears of a donkey?

2. What story does Hippolytus tell Numa's wife when she is mourning over her husband's death?

3. How does Pygmalion meet his wife?

4. How does Orpheus lose his wife, Eurydice?

5. How does Scylla exact her revenge on Circe?

6. What question does Tlepolemus ask Nestor during his storytelling, and what is Nestor's response?

7. Why does Byblis turn into a stream?

8. What does Alcyone see in her dream brought to her by the nymph Sleep?

9. How does Hippomenes outsmart Atalanta?

10. Why does Ulysses believe that he should be entitled to Achilles' armor after he dies?

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