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

2. 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 ____________.
(a) Galatea.
(b) Gnaeus.
(c) Gaetulicus.
(d) Gallus.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. When Alcyone's husband Ceyx was killed in ______________, the pitying gods sent her a dream to tell her the truth about what had happened to him.

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

4. What happened when Venus gave Psyche a series of impossible tasks?

5. After killing some of the Sun-god's ______________, all of Odysseus' men were punished by drowning in a storm.

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