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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. Why were the gods worshiped?
(a) Because they were very convincing.
(b) Because of their power.
(c) Because they were loving.
(d) Because of their wisdom.

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

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

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

5. These gods were the children of the ____________, who were the children of heaven and earth.
(a) Devils.
(b) Titans.
(c) Godfather.
(d) Angels.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. The Greeks saw perfection in the ideal beauty of __________, and they used it as a model for their statues of the gods. .

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

4. The Romans believed in the Olympian gods, giving them different ___________.

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

(see the answer key)

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