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

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

3. Cupid became Psyche's husband, but she was instructed that she must never _______.
(a) Touch him.
(b) Look upon him.
(c) Speak his name.
(d) Kiss him.

4. Earlier heroes were superhuman individuals who fought alone against monsters and strange creatures, while the Trojan heroes fought whom?
(a) Other men as part of an army.
(b) Other men in small militias.
(c) Monsters and strange creatures as part of an army.
(d) Other men, alone.

5. Another story tells that Zeus was angry with early men and sent what to destroy them?
(a) A plague.
(b) A swarm of locusts.
(c) A great snow storm.
(d) A great flood.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Romans believed in the Olympian gods, giving them different ___________.

2. ______________ was a great inventor who built the labyrinth for the Minotaur.

3. Phaёthon was the son of the Sun-god ____________.

4. ________________ was the goddess of marriage and women.

5. What turned crimson in honor of Pyramus and Thisbe's great love?

(see the answer key)

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