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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. On Circe's island the men were turned into what?
(a) Snakes.
(b) Chickens.
(c) Pigs.
(d) Cows.

2. Otus and Ephialtes were ___________ who wanted to prove that they were the equals of the gods.
(a) Dwarves.
(b) Giants.
(c) Elves.
(d) Chimaera.

3. Orithyia was carried away against her will by whom?
(a) The god of the West Wind, Boreas.
(b) The god of the East Wind, Boreas.
(c) The god of the South Wind, Boreas.
(d) The god of the North Wind, Boreas.

4. Phaёthon was the son of the Sun-god ____________.
(a) Apollo.
(b) Helios.
(c) Hermesianax.
(d) Agathon.

5. What did Medea do to the daughter of the king of Corinth?
(a) She hid her.
(b) She saved her.
(c) She tortured her.
(d) She killed her.

Short Answer Questions

1. Pelops' sons Atreus and Thyestes quarreled over Thyestes' affair with whom?

2. Aeneas obeyed immediately, and the heartbroken Queen ______________.

3. Theseus was the son of ____________, king of Athens, but he was brought up in a city in southern Greece.

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

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

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