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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. Clytie was a mortal woman who loved the Sun-god and pined away while watching the sun. What did she do after she was turned into a sunflower?
(a) She wept yellow petals.
(b) She let her heavy head sink to the ground.
(c) She turned to face the sun.
(d) She died.

2. Pelops married Princess Hippodamia after defeating her father in ____________ to win her hand.
(a) A foot race.
(b) A jousting match.
(c) A chariot race.
(d) Game of chess.

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

4. Hercules was the son of Zeus and whom?
(a) A mortal woman.
(b) Athena.
(c) A nymph.
(d) Hera.

5. These gods were the children of the ____________, who were the children of heaven and earth.
(a) Godfather.
(b) Titans.
(c) Angels.
(d) Devils.

Short Answer Questions

1. Earlier heroes were superhuman individuals who fought alone against monsters and strange creatures, while the Trojan heroes fought whom?

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.

3. Midas asked for whatever he touched to turn to what?

4. Modern scholarship usually dates The Odyssey to around the ______ century BC.

5. On Perseus' return, he flew over _____________ where the maiden Andromeda was being sacrificed to a sea-monster to appease the anger of the sea-god and his nymphs.

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