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

2. One of the earliest kings was _______________, who ruled at the time Demeter brought agriculture to earth.
(a) Philomela.
(b) Perseus.
(c) Theseus.
(d) Erectheus.

3. Odysseus alone survived and washed up on the shore of the island of ______________, where a sea-nymph who kept him captive for years.
(a) Caliente.
(b) Caliope.
(c) Calypso.
(d) Conga.

4. This king had been told in a prophecy that his daughter Lavinia was destined to marry __________, and he believed this referred to Aeneas.
(a) A Greek.
(b) A stranger.
(c) Her cousin.
(d) A neighbor.

5. Cadmus married _____________, the daughter of Aphrodite and Ares.
(a) Harmonia.
(b) Harmon.
(c) Harmonious.
(d) Harmony.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was the only Trojan prince to escape?

2. Modern scholarship usually dates The Odyssey to around the ______ century BC.

3. When Zeus was born, what did Cronus' wife Rhea do?

4. Oedipus saved the city from _____________, a monster that asked riddles of travelers who passed by.

5. It was a moral tale that taught proper behavior toward whom?

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