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

2. When they reached home, Medea helped Jason take revenge on whom?
(a) Polyeidosis, his sister's murderer.
(b) Pelias, his father's murderer.
(c) Phanocles, his mother's murderer .
(d) Phemonoe, his brother's murderer.

3. What happened when King Minos locked this inventor up in his own labyrinth?
(a) The inventor and his son jumped out of the window, with parachutes attached to their backs.
(b) The inventor poisoned the guards, so he and his son escaped.
(c) Using an invisibility cloak, he snuck himself and his son out of the labyrinth.
(d) The inventor constructed wings for him and his son Icarus to fly away.

4. Why did visiting the underworld mark Aeneas as a very special hero?
(a) Only a few mortals made it to the underworld.
(b) Mortals were not allowed to visit the underworld; this was a place for only the gods.
(c) Only a few mortals in the Greek myths went to the underworld and returned.
(d) Most mortals had no interest in going to the underworld.

5. Why was Venus jealous of Psyche?
(a) She was more powerful.
(b) She was young and beautiful.
(c) She was Venus' younger sister.
(d) She was more wealthy.

Short Answer Questions

1. ____________ was the other brother of Zeus and ruler of the underworld, where mortals went when they died.

2. This story is very different from the other myths in the book for ____________ reasons.

3. Cupid became Psyche's husband, but she was instructed that she must never _______.

4. Pyramus and Thisbe were neighbors who fell in love, but who would not allow them to marry?

5. Pyramus and Thisbe agreed to meet by _________.

(see the answer key)

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