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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. Endymion was a shepherd who was loved by the Moon goddess __________.
(a) Sabinus.
(b) Severus.
(c) Selene.
(d) Serenus.

2. The Romans believed in the Olympian gods, giving them different ___________.
(a) Attributes.
(b) Jobs.
(c) Names.
(d) Personalities.

3. _______________ was the goddess of wisdom, and protector of cities and civilization.
(a) Diana/Minerva.
(b) Athena/Minerva.
(c) Artemis/Diana.
(d) Athena/Diana.

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

5. In one version of the story of the creation of man, the gods created different races of men based on _________.
(a) Music.
(b) Food.
(c) Metals.
(d) Wood.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Pyramus and Thisbe were neighbors who fell in love, but who would not allow them to marry?

3. Baucis and Philemon were an old couple who showed good hospitality towards ________________ when they visited them disguised as mortals.

4. Homeric hymns, written from the end of the ______________ century BC to the fifth or even fourth century BC, were written to honor various gods.

5. Out of this came Night and Death, then Light, followed by Earth (_________) and Heaven (Ouranos, or Uranus).

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