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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two. The Quest of the Golden Fleece, and Four Great Adventures.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. ____________ was the goddess of love, who was said to have been born from the foam of the sea.
(a) Hera/Juno.
(b) Artemis/Diana.
(c) Aphrodite/Venus.
(d) Athena/Minerva.

2. ____________ was the god of light, archery, music, culture, healing, and prophecy.
(a) Aphrodite.
(b) Artemis.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Athena.

3. Homer, an ancient Greek _________, provided a lot of important insight in his epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey.
(a) Musician.
(b) Novelist.
(c) Singer.
(d) Poet.

4. The Roman poet ________ wrote a lot about the myths, but presented them as silly stories that held no inner meaning.
(a) Homer.
(b) Cercops.
(c) Ovid.
(d) Oppian.

5. _________ was the king of the gods and ruler of Olympus.
(a) Hera/Juno.
(b) Zeus/Jupiter.
(c) Zeus/Neptune.
(d) Poseidon/Neptune.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Titan called Cronus fought his father and took his power. Fearing that his children would do the same when they grew up, what did he do to each newborn baby?

2. Another story tells that Zeus was angry with early men and sent what to destroy them?

3. ________________ was the goddess of marriage and women.

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

5. 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 ____________.

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