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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two. Cupid and Psyche, and Eight Brief Tales of Lovers.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Why was Venus jealous of Psyche?
(a) She was more powerful.
(b) She was Venus' younger sister.
(c) She was more wealthy.
(d) She was young and beautiful.

2. Zeus imprisoned the Titans and forced _______ to hold up the sky.
(a) Athena.
(b) Atlas.
(c) Artemis.
(d) Artemisia.

3. When Alcyone's husband Ceyx was killed in ______________, the pitying gods sent her a dream to tell her the truth about what had happened to him.
(a) A chariot accident.
(b) A car accident.
(c) A flood.
(d) A storm at sea.

4. Later Greek writers include ______________, a lyric poet whose poems contained references to mythology, and the tragic playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.
(a) Pindar.
(b) Elephantis.
(c) Odysseus.
(d) Ovid.

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

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. What happened when Venus gave Psyche a series of impossible tasks?

3. Of what did Psyche become the goddess?

4. Pygmalion fell in love with the statue of a woman that he had created. Venus took pity on his aching heart and turned the statue into a real, living woman. Pygmalion married her and named her ____________.

5. The myths conveyed developing religious ideas concerning ____________.

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