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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One. How the World and Mankind Were Created, and The Earliest Heroes.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. ________________ was the goddess of marriage and women.
(a) Zeus/Jupiter.
(b) Poseidon/Neptune.
(c) Hera/Juno.
(d) Hades/Pluto.

4. The Roman poet ________ wrote a lot about the myths, but presented them as silly stories that held no inner meaning.
(a) Ovid.
(b) Oppian.
(c) Cercops.
(d) Homer.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Hesiod's _______________ is another main source, which asked questions about the origins of things.

2. The behavior of the Greek gods reflects the Greek attitude towards the beauty and perfection of _______.

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

4. When a mortal committed a crime, broke an oath, or harmed a guest, they were seen to be ___________.

5. Zeus and the other gods took over when Zeus dethroned ____________ and seized his power.

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