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

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

3. Pyramus and Thisbe were neighbors who fell in love, but who would not allow them to marry?
(a) Their parents.
(b) Their religious leaders.
(c) The gods.
(d) Their neighbors.

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

5. Hesiod's _______________ is another main source, which asked questions about the origins of things.
(a) Meogony.
(b) Theogony.
(c) Theology.
(d) Monogamy.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did the Greeks create their myths, initially?

3. Endymion was a shepherd who was loved by the Moon goddess __________.

4. Homer, an ancient Greek _________, provided a lot of important insight in his epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey.

5. Why were the gods worshiped?

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