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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. Another story tells that Zeus was angry with early men and sent what to destroy them?
(a) A great flood.
(b) A swarm of locusts.
(c) A great snow storm.
(d) A plague.

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

3. When Zeus was born, what did Cronus' wife Rhea do?
(a) Poisoned Cronus.
(b) Fed Zeus to her husband.
(c) Fed Cronus a stone wrapped in blankets instead of Zeus.
(d) Buried Zeus before his father could find him.

4. Hesiod's _______________ is another main source, which asked questions about the origins of things.
(a) Theology.
(b) Meogony.
(c) Theogony.
(d) Monogamy.

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

Short Answer Questions

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

2. To punish men, Zeus sent them ___________.

3. These gods were the children of the ____________, who were the children of heaven and earth.

4. The main gods, or ______________, lived on Mount Olympus.

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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