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

2. To punish men, Zeus sent them ___________.
(a) Plagues.
(b) Children.
(c) Women.
(d) Disasters.

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

4. The Roman poet ________ wrote a lot about the myths, but presented them as silly stories that held no inner meaning.
(a) Oppian.
(b) Ovid.
(c) Homer.
(d) Cercops.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. ________________ was the goddess of marriage and women.

2. According to the Greeks, in the beginning there was only __________.

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

4. The myths conveyed developing religious ideas concerning ____________.

5. Zeus imprisoned the Titans and forced _______ to hold up the sky.

(see the answer key)

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