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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Six. The Less Important Myths - Midas and Others.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Cadmus married _____________, the daughter of Aphrodite and Ares.
(a) Harmony.
(b) Harmonious.
(c) Harmonia.
(d) Harmon.

2. This chapter describes a series of myths concerning the earliest kings and queens of Athens before who became king?
(a) Theseus.
(b) Perseus.
(c) Erectheus.
(d) Philomela.

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

4. Pomona was a nymph of orchards who was loved by whom?
(a) Xenocles.
(b) Hermippus.
(c) Vertumnus.
(d) Lycophron.

5. Later, Midas was given ___________ by Apollo for siding with Pan instead of Apollo in a music contest.
(a) Asses' ears.
(b) A pig's snout.
(c) A pig's tail.
(d) Elephant ears.

Short Answer Questions

1. This son was worshiped afterward by the Greeks and the Romans as what?

2. To punish men, Zeus sent them ___________.

3. How was Achilles killed by Paris?

4. Odysseus rescued the men before visiting the dead prophet ________________ in the underworld.

5. Homeric hymns, written from the end of the ______________ century BC to the fifth or even fourth century BC, were written to honor various gods.

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