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

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

3. Homeric hymns, written from the end of the ______________ century BC to the fifth or even fourth century BC, were written to honor various gods.
(a) Eighth.
(b) Second.
(c) Fourth.
(d) Sixth.

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

5. When a mortal committed a crime, broke an oath, or harmed a guest, they were seen to be ___________.
(a) God-like.
(b) Powerful.
(c) Barbaric.
(d) Displeasing and dishonoring the gods.

Short Answer Questions

1. In one version of the story of the creation of man, the gods created different races of men based on _________.

2. Later Greek writers include ______________, a lyric poet whose poems contained references to mythology, and the tragic playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.

3. Why did the Greeks create their myths, initially?

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

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

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