View a FREE sample

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. How did the Greek gods act?
(a) In a very god-like manner.
(b) In a very human manner.
(c) Very kindly.
(d) In a very odd manner.

2. ____________ was the goddess of love, who was said to have been born from the foam of the sea.
(a) Hera/Juno.
(b) Aphrodite/Venus.
(c) Artemis/Diana.
(d) Athena/Minerva.

3. Later Greek writers include ______________, a lyric poet whose poems contained references to mythology, and the tragic playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.
(a) Ovid.
(b) Odysseus.
(c) Pindar.
(d) Elephantis.

4. 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 poisoned it.
(b) He buried it.
(c) He swallowed it.
(d) He suffocated it.

5. Apollo (also known as Apollo to the Romans) and _________ were the children of Zeus and Leto.
(a) Aphrodite/Venus.
(b) Diana/Venus.
(c) Artemis/Diana.
(d) Artemis/Aphrodite.

Short Answer Questions

1. To punish men, Zeus sent them ___________.

2. _________ was the king of the gods and ruler of Olympus.

3. The Roman poet ________ wrote a lot about the myths, but presented them as silly stories that held no inner meaning.

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

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

(see the answer key)

This section contains 259 words (approx. 1 page at 300 words per page) View a FREE sample