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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 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.

2. Homer, an ancient Greek _________, provided a lot of important insight in his epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey.
(a) Novelist.
(b) Singer.
(c) Musician.
(d) Poet.

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

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

5. ____________ was the god of light, archery, music, culture, healing, and prophecy.
(a) Aphrodite.
(b) Artemis.
(c) Athena.
(d) Apollo.

Short Answer Questions

1. Zeus imprisoned the Titans and forced _______ to hold up the sky.

2. The Greeks created their gods in whose image?

3. ________________ was the goddess of marriage and women.

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

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

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