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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Cupid became Psyche's husband, but she was instructed that she must never _______.
(a) Kiss him.
(b) Speak his name.
(c) Look upon him.
(d) Touch him.

2. The Odyssey was in many ways a celebration of what it meant to be ___________.
(a) Powerful, Greek.
(b) Civilized, Greek.
(c) Wealthy, Greek.
(d) Intelligent, Greek.

3. Why was Venus jealous of Psyche?
(a) She was more powerful.
(b) She was young and beautiful.
(c) She was more wealthy.
(d) She was Venus' younger sister.

4. Persephone was enchanted by Orpheus' music, and Hades agreed to release Eurydice, on what condition?
(a) Orpheus must not ever look upon her.
(b) Orpheus must never touch her.
(c) Orpheus must not touch her until she was in the land of the living again.
(d) Orpheus must not look back at her until she was in the land of the living again.

5. What do these myths show?
(a) How cruel the gods could sometimes be.
(b) How self-indulgent the gods could sometimes be.
(c) How loving the gods could sometimes be.
(d) How forgetful the gods could sometimes be.

Short Answer Questions

1. After killing some of the Sun-god's ______________, all of Odysseus' men were punished by drowning in a storm.

2. Who composed the Odyssey?

3. When Odysseus blinded the Cyclops, he angered whom?

4. Odysseus alone survived and washed up on the shore of the island of ______________, where a sea-nymph who kept him captive for years.

5. Odysseus' adventures were told in the _________ poem The Odyssey.

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