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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Five. The House of Atreus.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. ________________ was the goddess of marriage and women.
(a) Poseidon/Neptune.
(b) Hera/Juno.
(c) Zeus/Jupiter.
(d) Hades/Pluto.

2. The gods were furious and sent him to ______________, a section for punishment in the underworld.
(a) Tartar.
(b) Tartarus.
(c) Tarrantala.
(d) Titanium.

3. 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.
(a) A car accident.
(b) A storm at sea.
(c) A flood.
(d) A chariot accident.

4. Persephone was enchanted by Orpheus' music, and Hades agreed to release Eurydice, on what condition?
(a) Orpheus must not touch her until she was in the land of the living again.
(b) Orpheus must never touch her.
(c) Orpheus must not look back at her until she was in the land of the living again.
(d) Orpheus must not ever look upon her.

5. Agamemnon's son Orestes was instructed by Apollo's oracle to slay the murderer of his father. This meant killing whom?
(a) His brother.
(b) His sister.
(c) His own mother.
(d) His aunt.

Short Answer Questions

1. This bad luck began with Tantalus, who served up his own son at a banquet for the gods, perhaps to do what?

2. Endymion was a shepherd who was loved by the Moon goddess __________.

3. Why did Hercules kill his wife and children?

4. Later Greek writers include ______________, a lyric poet whose poems contained references to mythology, and the tragic playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.

5. The Roman poet ________ wrote a lot about the myths, but presented them as silly stories that held no inner meaning.

(see the answer key)

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