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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 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) Animals.
(d) Youth.

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

3. Pyramus and Thisbe were neighbors who fell in love, but who would not allow them to marry?
(a) Their religious leaders.
(b) The gods.
(c) Their parents.
(d) Their neighbors.

4. This chapter describes a series of myths concerning the earliest kings and queens of Athens before who became king?
(a) Erectheus.
(b) Philomela.
(c) Perseus.
(d) Theseus.

5. The Titan called Cronus fought his father and took his power. Fearing that his children would do the same when they grew up, what did he do to each newborn baby?
(a) He suffocated it.
(b) He swallowed it.
(c) He poisoned it.
(d) He buried it.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Odysseus alone survived and washed up on the shore of the island of ______________, where a sea-nymph who kept him captive for years.

3. Agamemnon's son Orestes was instructed by Apollo's oracle to slay the murderer of his father. This meant killing whom?

4. Who was Medea?

5. What happened when Venus gave Psyche a series of impossible tasks?

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