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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. Homer, an ancient Greek _________, provided a lot of important insight in his epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey.
(a) Musician.
(b) Poet.
(c) Singer.
(d) Novelist.

2. The story of the Trojan War was ______________ important and popular myths of the Greeks, and one which every educated Greek and Roman would have been familiar with.
(a) The most.
(b) At times one of the most.
(c) One of the most.
(d) Not one of the most.

3. Odysseus' journey home to Ithaca took him ______ years, and he faced many fierce monsters and dangerous people along the way.
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Five.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Ten.

4. Later Greek writers include ______________, a lyric poet whose poems contained references to mythology, and the tragic playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.
(a) Elephantis.
(b) Odysseus.
(c) Pindar.
(d) Ovid.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. What happened to Antigone when she ignored Creon's edict and buried her brother?

2. Proper _____________ was also considered very important in order to appease the spirits of the dead.

3. With whom did Agamemnon's wife have an affair?

4. Apollo (also known as Apollo to the Romans) and _________ were the children of Zeus and Leto.

5. Orithyia was carried away against her will by whom?

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