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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. The main gods, or ______________, lived on Mount Olympus.
(a) Olympusians.
(b) Olympians.
(c) Athletes.
(d) Olymps.

2. ______________ was the god of the sea and brother of Zeus.
(a) Poseidon/Neptune.
(b) Hera/Juno.
(c) Zeus/Jupiter.
(d) Hades/Pluto.

3. 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) Gaetulicus.
(c) Gallus.
(d) Gnaeus.

4. The Greeks saw perfection in the ideal beauty of __________, and they used it as a model for their statues of the gods. .
(a) Nature.
(b) Youth.
(c) Animals.
(d) Man.

5. Why did the Greeks create their myths, initially?
(a) As a way of connecting to the gods.
(b) As a way of understanding the heavens.
(c) As a way of teaching moral lessons.
(d) As a way of understanding the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. To punish men, Zeus sent them ___________.

2. How is the creation myth of the Greeks peculiar?

3. ____________ was the goddess of love, who was said to have been born from the foam of the sea.

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.

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

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