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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. Homeric hymns, written from the end of the ______________ century BC to the fifth or even fourth century BC, were written to honor various gods.
(a) Fourth.
(b) Second.
(c) Eighth.
(d) Sixth.

2. To punish men, Zeus sent them ___________.
(a) Women.
(b) Disasters.
(c) Children.
(d) Plagues.

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

4. Out of this came Night and Death, then Light, followed by Earth (_________) and Heaven (Ouranos, or Uranus).
(a) Xenophon.
(b) Parmenides.
(c) Gala.
(d) Ephesus.

5. ________________ was the hero who rode the famous winged horse Pegasus, whom Athena helped him to catch.
(a) Bellerophon.
(b) Babrius.
(c) Bion of Smyrna
(d) Barnabe.

Short Answer Questions

1. Persephone was enchanted by Orpheus' music, and Hades agreed to release Eurydice, on what condition?

2. The behavior of the Greek gods reflects the Greek attitude towards the beauty and perfection of _______.

3. The inventor warned his son ______________.

4. Of what did Psyche become the goddess?

5. What happened when King Minos locked this inventor up in his own labyrinth?

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