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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. According to the Greeks, in the beginning there was only __________.
(a) Light.
(b) God.
(c) Darkness.
(d) Chaos.

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

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

4. _________ was the king of the gods and ruler of Olympus.
(a) Hera/Juno.
(b) Zeus/Jupiter.
(c) Zeus/Neptune.
(d) Poseidon/Neptune.

5. Zeus and the other gods took over when Zeus dethroned ____________ and seized his power.
(a) Cromagden.
(b) Cronus.
(c) Crispus.
(d) Callinus.

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

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

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

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

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