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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four. The Adventures of Aeneas.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Medea do to the daughter of the king of Corinth?
(a) She killed her.
(b) She saved her.
(c) She tortured her.
(d) She hid her.

2. ______________ was a great inventor who built the labyrinth for the Minotaur.
(a) Cercidas.
(b) Arion.
(c) Erinna.
(d) Daedalus.

3. ________________ was the hero who rode the famous winged horse Pegasus, whom Athena helped him to catch.
(a) Barnabe.
(b) Bion of Smyrna
(c) Babrius.
(d) Bellerophon.

4. 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.
(a) A storm at sea.
(b) A chariot accident.
(c) A flood.
(d) A car accident.

5. Of what did Psyche become the goddess?
(a) The heart.
(b) The body.
(c) The soul.
(d) The mind.

Short Answer Questions

1. Pegasus was used to help kill the fearsome monster called the Chimaera, which had the body and head of a fire-breathing _______, a goat's head in the middle of its back, and a snake for a tail.

2. How was Achilles killed by Paris?

3. The story of the Trojan War was ______________ important and popular myths of the Greeks, and one which every educated Greek and Roman would have been familiar with.

4. The inventor warned his son ______________.

5. _______________ was the goddess of wisdom, and protector of cities and civilization.

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