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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Jason was the hero who set out to retrieve the Golden Fleece from whom?
(a) King Titan of Colchis.
(b) King Aeetes of Colchis.
(c) King Nguyen of Siam.
(d) King Tut of Egypt.

2. Theseus was the son of ____________, king of Athens, but he was brought up in a city in southern Greece.
(a) Automedon.
(b) Aristeas.
(c) Aegeus.
(d) Aratus.

3. ____________ was the goddess of love, who was said to have been born from the foam of the sea.
(a) Hera/Juno.
(b) Athena/Minerva.
(c) Aphrodite/Venus.
(d) Artemis/Diana.

4. ____________ was the god of light, archery, music, culture, healing, and prophecy.
(a) Athena.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Aphrodite.
(d) Artemis.

5. ________________ was the hero who rode the famous winged horse Pegasus, whom Athena helped him to catch.
(a) Bellerophon.
(b) Bion of Smyrna
(c) Barnabe.
(d) Babrius.

6. Pyramus and Thisbe agreed to meet by _________.
(a) A mulberry tree.
(b) A spruce tree.
(c) A pine tree.
(d) An oak tree.

7. Why did Hercules kill his wife and children?
(a) He was evil.
(b) He was framed for the killing of his family.
(c) He was tortured into killing them.
(d) Hera had put him under a spell.

8. The Greeks finally won the war with __________.
(a) An expensive bribe.
(b) One last bloody battle.
(c) A sacrifice to the gods.
(d) A huge wooden horse.

9. When Zeus was born, what did Cronus' wife Rhea do?
(a) Fed Zeus to her husband.
(b) Poisoned Cronus.
(c) Fed Cronus a stone wrapped in blankets instead of Zeus.
(d) Buried Zeus before his father could find him.

10. The myths conveyed developing religious ideas concerning ____________.
(a) God and heaven.
(b) Morality and justice.
(c) Birth and death.
(d) The Bible.

11. Why was refusing someone a burial a serious affront to the gods?
(a) Without a burial, the dead could not get to Mt. Olympus.
(b) The gods did not like to see death.
(c) The gods had created the burial ceremony.
(d) Burial rites were incredibly important in ancient Greece.

12. What happened when King Minos locked this inventor up in his own labyrinth?
(a) The inventor constructed wings for him and his son Icarus to fly away.
(b) The inventor and his son jumped out of the window, with parachutes attached to their backs.
(c) The inventor poisoned the guards, so he and his son escaped.
(d) Using an invisibility cloak, he snuck himself and his son out of the labyrinth.

13. How did the Greek gods act?
(a) In a very god-like manner.
(b) In a very human manner.
(c) Very kindly.
(d) In a very odd manner.

14. Out of this came Night and Death, then Light, followed by Earth (_________) and Heaven (Ouranos, or Uranus).
(a) Ephesus.
(b) Xenophon.
(c) Parmenides.
(d) Gala.

15. Pegasus was used to help kill the fearsome monster called the Chimaera, which had the body and head of a fire-breathing _______, a goat's head in the middle of its back, and a snake for a tail.
(a) Lion.
(b) Tiger.
(c) Horse.
(d) Dragon.

Short Answer Questions

1. _________ was the king of the gods and ruler of Olympus.

2. When Alcyone's husband Ceyx was killed in ______________, the pitying gods sent her a dream to tell her the truth about what had happened to him.

3. The Greeks created their gods in whose image?

4. 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.

5. Homer, an ancient Greek _________, provided a lot of important insight in his epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey.

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