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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. The Greeks created their gods in whose image?
(a) The leaders' images.
(b) Their own.
(c) No one's image.
(d) The Romans' images.

2. Of what did Psyche become the goddess?
(a) The heart.
(b) The body.
(c) The soul.
(d) The mind.

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

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

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

Short Answer Questions

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

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

3. ____________ was the goddess of love, who was said to have been born from the foam of the sea.

4. The Roman poet ________ wrote a lot about the myths, but presented them as silly stories that held no inner meaning.

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

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