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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Pelops' sons Atreus and Thyestes quarreled over Thyestes' affair with whom?
(a) Atreus' wife.
(b) Princess Hippodamia.
(c) Their mother.
(d) Hera.

3. The Greeks saw perfection in the ideal beauty of __________, and they used it as a model for their statues of the gods. .
(a) Nature.
(b) Man.
(c) Youth.
(d) Animals.

4. Why did visiting the underworld mark Aeneas as a very special hero?
(a) Only a few mortals in the Greek myths went to the underworld and returned.
(b) Most mortals had no interest in going to the underworld.
(c) Only a few mortals made it to the underworld.
(d) Mortals were not allowed to visit the underworld; this was a place for only the gods.

5. How is the creation myth of the Greeks peculiar?
(a) The gods were not kind to mankind.
(b) The gods had different personalities.
(c) The gods are more powerful than man.
(d) The gods did not create the universe or the world.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who composed the Odyssey?

2. This chapter describes a series of myths concerning the earliest kings and queens of Athens before who became king?

3. ________________ was the goddess of marriage and women.

4. The myths conveyed developing religious ideas concerning ____________.

5. Why did Oedipus leave home and travel to Thebes?

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