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

2. Odysseus alone survived and washed up on the shore of the island of ______________, where a sea-nymph who kept him captive for years.
(a) Conga.
(b) Calypso.
(c) Caliente.
(d) Caliope.

3. 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.

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

5. What form did Tereus take?
(a) An ugly alligator.
(b) An ugly praying mantis.
(c) An ugly bird with a huge beak.
(d) An ugly bear.

Short Answer Questions

1. These two sisters had __________ nieces.

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

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

4. 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 ____________.

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

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