View a FREE sample

This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Five. The Royal House of Athens.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The two sisters escaped, but Tereus pursued them. The gods turned them all into what?
(a) Mammals.
(b) Insects.
(c) Birds.
(d) Reptiles.

2. Baucis and Philemon were an old couple who showed good hospitality towards ________________ when they visited them disguised as mortals.
(a) Juno and Pluto.
(b) Jupiter and Juno.
(c) Jupiter and Mercury.
(d) Mars and Mercury.

3. Odysseus rescued the men before visiting the dead prophet ________________ in the underworld.
(a) Theodectes.
(b) Tieresias.
(c) Theocritus.
(d) Tyrtaeus.

4. These two sisters had __________ nieces.
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) Five.

5. Procne became a ______________ that sang mournfully for her dead son whom she now regretted killing.
(a) Robin.
(b) Cricket.
(c) Whippoorwhill.
(d) Nightingale.

Short Answer Questions

1. Orithyia was carried away against her will by whom?

2. Pyramus and Thisbe were neighbors who fell in love, but who would not allow them to marry?

3. What turned crimson in honor of Pyramus and Thisbe's great love?

4. It was a moral tale that taught proper behavior toward whom?

5. Pygmalion fell in love with the statue of a woman that he had created. Venus took pity on his aching heart and turned the statue into a real, living woman. Pygmalion married her and named her ____________.

(see the answer key)

This section contains 243 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample