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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three. The Great Heroes before the Trojan War - Perseus, Theseus, Hercules and Atalanta.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

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

4. The Titan called Cronus fought his father and took his power. Fearing that his children would do the same when they grew up, what did he do to each newborn baby?
(a) He suffocated it.
(b) He poisoned it.
(c) He buried it.
(d) He swallowed it.

5. When they reached home, Medea helped Jason take revenge on whom?
(a) Phanocles, his mother's murderer .
(b) Phemonoe, his brother's murderer.
(c) Polyeidosis, his sister's murderer.
(d) Pelias, his father's murderer.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Alcyone's husband Ceyx was killed in ______________, the pitying gods sent her a dream to tell her the truth about what had happened to him.

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

3. Why was Venus jealous of Psyche?

4. The Greeks created their gods in whose image?

5. Theseus became a good and just king of _________ and took part in many more adventures, such as the Calydonian Boar hunt and the fight between Centaurs and Lapiths.

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