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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Seven. The Mythology of the Norsemen - The Stories of Signy and of Sigurd, and The Norse Gods.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. This bad luck began with Tantalus, who served up his own son at a banquet for the gods, perhaps to do what?
(a) Confuse them.
(b) Test or mock them.
(c) Disgust them.
(d) Poison them.

2. Modern scholarship usually dates The Odyssey to around the ______ century BC.
(a) 6th.
(b) 7th.
(c) 5th.
(d) 8th.

3. Why did Oedipus leave home and travel to Thebes?
(a) He had a falling-out with his parents.
(b) He was unhappy at home.
(c) He heard a prophecy that he would kill his father and marry his mother.
(d) He wanted adventure.

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

5. Midas asked for whatever he touched to turn to what?
(a) Gold.
(b) Bronze.
(c) Platinum.
(d) Silver.

Short Answer Questions

1. Endymion was a shepherd who was loved by the Moon goddess __________.

2. King Laius of Thebes was a descendant of ______________, married to a distant cousin called Jocasta.

3. To what did Atalanta challenge all her suitors?

4. Who was the only Trojan prince to escape?

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

(see the answer key)

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