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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. Midas asked for whatever he touched to turn to what?
(a) Bronze.
(b) Gold.
(c) Platinum.
(d) Silver.

2. ______________ was a great inventor who built the labyrinth for the Minotaur.
(a) Cercidas.
(b) Daedalus.
(c) Arion.
(d) Erinna.

3. ______________ was the god of the sea and brother of Zeus.
(a) Hera/Juno.
(b) Hades/Pluto.
(c) Zeus/Jupiter.
(d) Poseidon/Neptune.

4. Pegasus was used to help kill the fearsome monster called the Chimaera, which had the body and head of a fire-breathing _______, a goat's head in the middle of its back, and a snake for a tail.
(a) Dragon.
(b) Lion.
(c) Horse.
(d) Tiger.

5. Modern scholarship usually dates The Odyssey to around the ______ century BC.
(a) 5th.
(b) 6th.
(c) 8th.
(d) 7th.

Short Answer Questions

1. Odysseus' journey home to Ithaca took him ______ years, and he faced many fierce monsters and dangerous people along the way.

2. __________ was a beautiful nymph who was loved by a sea god called Glaucus.

3. When Zeus was born, what did Cronus' wife Rhea do?

4. Endymion was a shepherd who was loved by the Moon goddess __________.

5. Pelops' sons Atreus and Thyestes quarreled over Thyestes' affair with whom?

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