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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. Modern scholarship usually dates The Odyssey to around the ______ century BC.
(a) 5th.
(b) 7th.
(c) 6th.
(d) 8th.

2. Orithyia's two sons were heroes who accompanied ____________ on his voyage.
(a) Theseus.
(b) Jason.
(c) Aeneas.
(d) Odysseus.

3. Pyramus and Thisbe were neighbors who fell in love, but who would not allow them to marry?
(a) Their parents.
(b) The gods.
(c) Their neighbors.
(d) Their religious leaders.

4. Orithyia was carried away against her will by whom?
(a) The god of the East Wind, Boreas.
(b) The god of the North Wind, Boreas.
(c) The god of the West Wind, Boreas.
(d) The god of the South Wind, Boreas.

5. 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 not look back at her until she was in the land of the living again.
(c) Orpheus must not touch her until she was in the land of the living again.
(d) Orpheus must never touch her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Baucis and Philemon were an old couple who showed good hospitality towards ________________ when they visited them disguised as mortals.

2. Odysseus' journey home to Ithaca took him ______ years, and he faced many fierce monsters and dangerous people along the way.

3. What form did Tereus take?

4. One of the earliest kings was _______________, who ruled at the time Demeter brought agriculture to earth.

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

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