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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 other brother of Zeus and ruler of the underworld, where mortals went when they died.
(a) Hades/Pluto.
(b) Poseidon/Neptune.
(c) Hera/Juno.
(d) Athena/Minerva.

2. There are _______ different versions of the story of the creation of man.
(a) Five.
(b) Nine.
(c) Three.
(d) Seven.

3. The inventor warned his son ______________.
(a) To not fly too close to the sun.
(b) To not run too fast.
(c) To not go too far away from him.
(d) To not become too sure of his safety.

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) Animals.
(c) Man.
(d) Youth.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Medea save herself and Jason from the huge bronze man Talus?

2. The Greeks created their gods in whose image?

3. Phaёthon was the son of the Sun-god ____________.

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

5. Later Greek writers include ______________, a lyric poet whose poems contained references to mythology, and the tragic playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.

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