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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. Odysseus rescued the men before visiting the dead prophet ________________ in the underworld.
(a) Theocritus.
(b) Tieresias.
(c) Tyrtaeus.
(d) Theodectes.

2. Aeneas visited the underworld briefly before sailing to a spot near the River __________ on the Italian coast.
(a) Tesino.
(b) Tagliamento.
(c) Tiber.
(d) Tronto.

3. Agamemnon had sacrificed whom to Artemis in order to set sail for Troy?
(a) His wife.
(b) His own daughter.
(c) His niece.
(d) His neighbor.

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

5. ____________ was the other brother of Zeus and ruler of the underworld, where mortals went when they died.
(a) Poseidon/Neptune.
(b) Hades/Pluto.
(c) Hera/Juno.
(d) Athena/Minerva.

Short Answer Questions

1. ____________ was the goddess of love, who was said to have been born from the foam of the sea.

2. Cadmus married _____________, the daughter of Aphrodite and Ares.

3. Why did Hercules kill his wife and children?

4. In one version of the story of the creation of man, the gods created different races of men based on _________.

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

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