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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. Achilles could not stand the slight to his honor that Agamemnon brought about by ______________.
(a) Claiming his wife.
(b) Claiming his property.
(c) Claiming his slave-girl.
(d) Claiming his daughter.

2. Hercules undertook ______________ seemingly impossible tasks for King Eurystheus of Mycenae in order to punish and purify himself for the murder of his family.
(a) Twenty.
(b) Twelve.
(c) Ten.
(d) Five.

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

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

5. ______________ was the god of the sea and brother of Zeus.
(a) Hades/Pluto.
(b) Zeus/Jupiter.
(c) Hera/Juno.
(d) Poseidon/Neptune.

Short Answer Questions

1. Cupid became Psyche's husband, but she was instructed that she must never _______.

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

3. The Greeks finally won the war with __________.

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

5. How did the Greek gods act?

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