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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) Athena/Minerva.
(b) Hera/Juno.
(c) Aphrodite/Venus.
(d) Artemis/Diana.

2. What turned crimson in honor of Pyramus and Thisbe's great love?
(a) The white mulberry berries.
(b) The white apple.
(c) The white strawberries.
(d) The white poinsettia leaves.

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

4. In one version of the story of the creation of man, the gods created different races of men based on _________.
(a) Music.
(b) Wood.
(c) Food.
(d) Metals.

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

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

4. _________ was the king of the gods and ruler of Olympus.

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

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