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

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

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

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

5. The two sisters escaped, but Tereus pursued them. The gods turned them all into what?
(a) Mammals.
(b) Reptiles.
(c) Insects.
(d) Birds.

Short Answer Questions

1. Endymion was a shepherd who was loved by the Moon goddess __________.

2. Creüsa was raped by what god?

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

4. Of what did Psyche become the goddess?

5. Procris was happily married to Cephalus, until one day Aurora, the goddess of the dawn, ____________.

(see the answer key)

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