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

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

3. Persephone was enchanted by Orpheus' music, and Hades agreed to release Eurydice, on what condition?
(a) Orpheus must never touch her.
(b) Orpheus must not ever look upon her.
(c) Orpheus must not touch her until she was in the land of the living again.
(d) Orpheus must not look back at her until she was in the land of the living again.

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

5. When a mortal committed a crime, broke an oath, or harmed a guest, they were seen to be ___________.
(a) God-like.
(b) Displeasing and dishonoring the gods.
(c) Barbaric.
(d) Powerful.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose family survived Zeus' anger?

2. Later Greek writers include ______________, a lyric poet whose poems contained references to mythology, and the tragic playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.

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

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

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