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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four. The Trojan War, and The Fall of Troy.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Zeus and the other gods took over when Zeus dethroned ____________ and seized his power.
(a) Callinus.
(b) Crispus.
(c) Cronus.
(d) Cromagden.

2. The heroes of the Trojan War, also called __________ heroes, were slightly different from the older mythological heroes such as Hercules, Perseus and Theseus.
(a) Trajan.
(b) Spartan.
(c) Homeric.
(d) Corinthian.

3. What happened when Venus gave Psyche a series of impossible tasks?
(a) Psyche was always helped by sympathetic creatures.
(b) Psyche ignored Venus' tasks.
(c) Psyche was unable to complete them.
(d) Psyche could easily complete them.

4. Phaёthon was the son of the Sun-god ____________.
(a) Agathon.
(b) Helios.
(c) Hermesianax.
(d) Apollo.

5. Cupid became Psyche's husband, but she was instructed that she must never _______.
(a) Look upon him.
(b) Touch him.
(c) Kiss him.
(d) Speak his name.

Short Answer Questions

1. Jason was the hero who set out to retrieve the Golden Fleece from whom?

2. The Greeks finally won the war with __________.

3. What turned crimson in honor of Pyramus and Thisbe's great love?

4. In one version of the story of the creation of man, the gods created different races of men based on _________.

5. The Greeks saw perfection in the ideal beauty of __________, and they used it as a model for their statues of the gods. .

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