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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 did the Greeks create their myths, initially?
(a) As a way of understanding the world.
(b) As a way of teaching moral lessons.
(c) As a way of understanding the heavens.
(d) As a way of connecting to the gods.

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

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

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 ____________.
(a) Galatea.
(b) Gnaeus.
(c) Gallus.
(d) Gaetulicus.

5. Baucis and Philemon were an old couple who showed good hospitality towards ________________ when they visited them disguised as mortals.
(a) Jupiter and Mercury.
(b) Juno and Pluto.
(c) Jupiter and Juno.
(d) Mars and Mercury.

Short Answer Questions

1. ____________ was the god of light, archery, music, culture, healing, and prophecy.

2. How is the creation myth of the Greeks peculiar?

3. Cupid became Psyche's husband, but she was instructed that she must never _______.

4. These gods were the children of the ____________, who were the children of heaven and earth.

5. ____________ was the other brother of Zeus and ruler of the underworld, where mortals went when they died.

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