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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. After killing some of the Sun-god's ______________, all of Odysseus' men were punished by drowning in a storm.
(a) Pigs.
(b) Chickens.
(c) Cattle.
(d) Horses.

2. 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 religious leaders.
(d) Their neighbors.

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

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

5. What happened when Venus gave Psyche a series of impossible tasks?
(a) Psyche ignored Venus' tasks.
(b) Psyche could easily complete them.
(c) Psyche was always helped by sympathetic creatures.
(d) Psyche was unable to complete them.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Who composed the Odyssey?

3. Odysseus and his men faced man eating monsters and strange magic, losing how many ships on their journey?

4. Persephone was enchanted by Orpheus' music, and Hades agreed to release Eurydice, on what condition?

5. Modern scholarship usually dates The Odyssey to around the ______ century BC.

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