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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. Zeus imprisoned the Titans and forced _______ to hold up the sky.
(a) Artemisia.
(b) Artemis.
(c) Atlas.
(d) Athena.

2. 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?
(a) He buried it.
(b) He suffocated it.
(c) He swallowed it.
(d) He poisoned it.

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

4. Whose family survived Zeus' anger?
(a) Diogenes'.
(b) Zeus'.
(c) Prometheus'.
(d) Aristophanes'.

5. The Greeks created their gods in whose image?
(a) The Romans' images.
(b) The leaders' images.
(c) No one's image.
(d) Their own.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Greeks saw perfection in the ideal beauty of __________, and they used it as a model for their statues of the gods. .

2. Another story tells that Zeus was angry with early men and sent what to destroy them?

3. The Romans believed in the Olympian gods, giving them different ___________.

4. _______________ was the goddess of wisdom, and protector of cities and civilization.

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

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