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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. Modern scholarship usually dates The Odyssey to around the ______ century BC.
(a) 6th.
(b) 5th.
(c) 7th.
(d) 8th.

2. _________ was the king of the gods and ruler of Olympus.
(a) Zeus/Jupiter.
(b) Zeus/Neptune.
(c) Poseidon/Neptune.
(d) Hera/Juno.

3. When Aeneas and his group arrived in Italy, they were greeted warmly by __________, the local king.
(a) Latinus.
(b) Longitude.
(c) Latissimus.
(d) Latitude.

4. Perseus was the son of Zeus and whom?
(a) Artemis.
(b) A mortal woman.
(c) Hera.
(d) Venus.

5. Zeus and the other gods took over when Zeus dethroned ____________ and seized his power.
(a) Cronus.
(b) Cromagden.
(c) Callinus.
(d) Crispus.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Atreus kill and serve for dinner?

2. Agamemnon's son Orestes was instructed by Apollo's oracle to slay the murderer of his father. This meant killing whom?

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

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

5. Odysseus rescued the men before visiting the dead prophet ________________ in the underworld.

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