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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. When a Trojan prince called Paris was asked to judge a beauty contest between three goddesses, who bribed him with the offer of the most beautiful woman in the world?
(a) Aphrodite.
(b) Hera.
(c) Artemis.
(d) Athena.

2. The story of Agamemnon shows how terrible acts could cause what?
(a) A form religious pollution.
(b) Disease.
(c) Punishment from the gods on the individual performing these terrible acts.
(d) Problems for an entire city or nation.

3. Aeneas stayed with her for a time, but eventually ___________ sent a message telling him to remember his great destiny and to sail for Italy.
(a) Juno.
(b) Mars.
(c) Mercury.
(d) Jupiter.

4. The Odyssey was in many ways a celebration of what it meant to be ___________.
(a) Wealthy, Greek.
(b) Powerful, Greek.
(c) Civilized, Greek.
(d) Intelligent, Greek.

5. Procne became a ______________ that sang mournfully for her dead son whom she now regretted killing.
(a) Nightingale.
(b) Robin.
(c) Whippoorwhill.
(d) Cricket.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why were the gods worshiped?

2. Cadmus founded the city of ___________ by killing a dragon and sowing its teeth.

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

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

5. These two sisters had __________ nieces.

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