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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 myths conveyed developing religious ideas concerning ____________.
(a) Morality and justice.
(b) God and heaven.
(c) Birth and death.
(d) The Bible.

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

3. What happened when King Minos locked this inventor up in his own labyrinth?
(a) The inventor and his son jumped out of the window, with parachutes attached to their backs.
(b) Using an invisibility cloak, he snuck himself and his son out of the labyrinth.
(c) The inventor constructed wings for him and his son Icarus to fly away.
(d) The inventor poisoned the guards, so he and his son escaped.

4. The Romans believed in the Olympian gods, giving them different ___________.
(a) Personalities.
(b) Names.
(c) Jobs.
(d) Attributes.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. These gods were the children of the ____________, who were the children of heaven and earth.

4. Pyramus and Thisbe were neighbors who fell in love, but who would not allow them to marry?

5. 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?

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