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

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

3. Whose family survived Zeus' anger?
(a) Prometheus'.
(b) Diogenes'.
(c) Aristophanes'.
(d) Zeus'.

4. Out of this came Night and Death, then Light, followed by Earth (_________) and Heaven (Ouranos, or Uranus).
(a) Parmenides.
(b) Xenophon.
(c) Gala.
(d) Ephesus.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When a mortal committed a crime, broke an oath, or harmed a guest, they were seen to be ___________.

2. There are _______ different versions of the story of the creation of man.

3. ______________ was the god of the sea and brother of Zeus.

4. The Greeks created their gods in whose image?

5. Apollo (also known as Apollo to the Romans) and _________ were the children of Zeus and Leto.

(see the answer key)

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