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

2. Theseus was the son of ____________, king of Athens, but he was brought up in a city in southern Greece.
(a) Automedon.
(b) Aratus.
(c) Aristeas.
(d) Aegeus.

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

4. 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) Homeric.
(c) Spartan.
(d) Corinthian.

5. To whom was Helen married?
(a) King Perseus of Sparta.
(b) King Midas of Athens.
(c) King Theseus of Athens.
(d) King Menelaus of Sparta.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Atalanta was raised by ____________ and became a great huntress.

3. To what did Atalanta challenge all her suitors?

4. Of what did Psyche become the goddess?

5. Out of this came Night and Death, then Light, followed by Earth (_________) and Heaven (Ouranos, or Uranus).

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