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

2. Odysseus' journey home to Ithaca took him ______ years, and he faced many fierce monsters and dangerous people along the way.
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Five.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Ten.

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

4. Procne was married to Tereus of Thrace, a son of Ares, who fell in love with ______________ and tricked her into a marriage before cutting out her tongue and locking her up.
(a) Philomela.
(b) Theseus.
(c) Erectheus.
(d) Perseus.

5. Who composed the Odyssey?
(a) The Roman bard Plato.
(b) The Greek bard Homer.
(c) The Greek bard Plato.
(d) The Roman bard Homer.

Short Answer Questions

1. The two sisters escaped, but Tereus pursued them. The gods turned them all into what?

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

3. On Circe's island the men were turned into what?

4. Procne became a ______________ that sang mournfully for her dead son whom she now regretted killing.

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

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