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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. Out of this came Night and Death, then Light, followed by Earth (_________) and Heaven (Ouranos, or Uranus).
(a) Parmenides.
(b) Gala.
(c) Xenophon.
(d) Ephesus.

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

3. Why did the Greeks create their myths, initially?
(a) As a way of understanding the world.
(b) As a way of teaching moral lessons.
(c) As a way of connecting to the gods.
(d) As a way of understanding the heavens.

4. Pegasus was used to help kill the fearsome monster called the Chimaera, which had the body and head of a fire-breathing _______, a goat's head in the middle of its back, and a snake for a tail.
(a) Tiger.
(b) Lion.
(c) Dragon.
(d) Horse.

5. Atalanta was raised by ____________ and became a great huntress.
(a) A she-wolf.
(b) A she-bear.
(c) A she-tiger.
(d) A she-fox.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the only Trojan prince to escape?

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

3. Who was Medea?

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

5. 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.

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