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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) Crispus.
(b) Cromagden.
(c) Callinus.
(d) Cronus.

2. ________________ was the hero who rode the famous winged horse Pegasus, whom Athena helped him to catch.
(a) Barnabe.
(b) Bion of Smyrna
(c) Babrius.
(d) Bellerophon.

3. The Roman poet ________ wrote a lot about the myths, but presented them as silly stories that held no inner meaning.
(a) Cercops.
(b) Ovid.
(c) Oppian.
(d) Homer.

4. The myths conveyed developing religious ideas concerning ____________.
(a) God and heaven.
(b) Morality and justice.
(c) Birth and death.
(d) The Bible.

5. Pygmalion fell in love with the statue of a woman that he had created. Venus took pity on his aching heart and turned the statue into a real, living woman. Pygmalion married her and named her ____________.
(a) Gaetulicus.
(b) Gallus.
(c) Gnaeus.
(d) Galatea.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Greeks finally won the war with __________.

2. Pyramus and Thisbe were neighbors who fell in love, but who would not allow them to marry?

3. When they reached home, Medea helped Jason take revenge on whom?

4. The heroes of the Trojan War, also called __________ heroes, were slightly different from the older mythological heroes such as Hercules, Perseus and Theseus.

5. To whom was Helen married?

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