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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. Aeneas stayed with her for a time, but eventually ___________ sent a message telling him to remember his great destiny and to sail for Italy.
(a) Mercury.
(b) Juno.
(c) Mars.
(d) Jupiter.

2. ________________ 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.

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

4. After escaping from Troy, Aeneas traveled with whom to find a new home?
(a) His wife and children.
(b) His men.
(c) His father and son.
(d) His son, father, and a group of other survivors.

5. Cupid became Psyche's husband, but she was instructed that she must never _______.
(a) Look upon him.
(b) Speak his name.
(c) Kiss him.
(d) Touch him.

Short Answer Questions

1. ________________ was the goddess of marriage and women.

2. Who was the only Trojan prince to escape?

3. The heroes of the Trojan War, also called __________ heroes, were slightly different from the older mythological heroes such as Hercules, Perseus and Theseus.

4. The Romans believed in the Olympian gods, giving them different ___________.

5. After encountering some of the same dangers that Odysseus and Jason faced on their adventures, a storm washed Aeneas and his fellow travelers up near Carthage on the north coast of _________.

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