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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. How does Orpheus attempt to charm his way out of death?
(a) By dancing.
(b) By singing.
(c) By reciting poetry.
(d) By painting.

2. 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.

3. What is Anaxerta transformed into after she rebukes Iphis?
(a) Stone.
(b) Salt.
(c) Sapphire.
(d) Sand.

4. Who gives Romulus the gift of immortality after her restores his grandfather's throne?
(a) Jupiter.
(b) Venus.
(c) Mercury.
(d) Pluto.

5. What does Laomedon promise to pay the gods for their help in building a wall around Troy?
(a) Silk.
(b) Women.
(c) Gold.
(d) Horses.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the gods say that Laomedon must do to his daughter Hesion?

2. What animal makes up half of Pan's body?

3. How does the enemy of Rome get in to defeat the city?

4. How does Byblis tell the family member that she is in love with him?

5. Whose oracle does Ceyx seek out for advice after his livestock are attacked?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Ceyx respond to the news that wolves are attacking his livestock?

2. How does Cipius convince Rome to exile him to his own land?

3. How does Peleus eventually get Thetis to marry him?

4. How does Hecuba exact her revenge on her son, Polydorus?

5. How does Scylla exact her revenge on Circe?

6. What is interesting about Aeneas' three daughters?

7. How does Picus find himself transformed into a woodpecker?

8. Why does Daedalion throw himself off a cliff?

9. How is Achilles killed?

10. How does Pygmalion meet his wife?

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