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

2. What happened when Venus gave Psyche a series of impossible tasks?
(a) Psyche ignored Venus' tasks.
(b) Psyche was always helped by sympathetic creatures.
(c) Psyche could easily complete them.
(d) Psyche was unable to complete them.

3. Endymion was a shepherd who was loved by the Moon goddess __________.
(a) Severus.
(b) Serenus.
(c) Selene.
(d) Sabinus.

4. ________________ was the goddess of marriage and women.
(a) Poseidon/Neptune.
(b) Zeus/Jupiter.
(c) Hades/Pluto.
(d) Hera/Juno.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. ______________ was the god of the sea and brother of Zeus.

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

4. Of what did Psyche become the goddess?

5. How did the Greek gods act?

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