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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. To what did Atalanta challenge all her suitors?
(a) A jousting tournament that she knew she would win.
(b) A hotdog eating contest that she knew she would win.
(c) A race on horseback that she knew she would win.
(d) A foot race that she knew she would win.

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

3. The story of Agamemnon shows how terrible acts could cause what?
(a) Punishment from the gods on the individual performing these terrible acts.
(b) Disease.
(c) Problems for an entire city or nation.
(d) A form religious pollution.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. When Zeus was born, what did Cronus' wife Rhea do?

2. The main gods, or ______________, lived on Mount Olympus.

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

4. Why were the gods worshiped?

5. The Greeks saw perfection in the ideal beauty of __________, and they used it as a model for their statues of the gods. .

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