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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Theseus became a good and just king of _________ and took part in many more adventures, such as the Calydonian Boar hunt and the fight between Centaurs and Lapiths.
(a) Delphi.
(b) Athens.
(c) Rome.
(d) Sparta.

2. 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) Youth.
(d) Animals.

3. Zeus and the other gods took over when Zeus dethroned ____________ and seized his power.
(a) Cromagden.
(b) Cronus.
(c) Crispus.
(d) Callinus.

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.
(a) Egypt.
(b) Siam.
(c) Arabia.
(d) Ethiopia.

5. Homeric hymns, written from the end of the ______________ century BC to the fifth or even fourth century BC, were written to honor various gods.
(a) Fourth.
(b) Sixth.
(c) Eighth.
(d) Second.

6. In one version of the story of the creation of man, the gods created different races of men based on _________.
(a) Wood.
(b) Metals.
(c) Music.
(d) Food.

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

8. The heroes of the Trojan War, also called __________ heroes, were slightly different from the older mythological heroes such as Hercules, Perseus and Theseus.
(a) Corinthian.
(b) Trajan.
(c) Homeric.
(d) Spartan.

9. Cupid became Psyche's husband, but she was instructed that she must never _______.
(a) Speak his name.
(b) Kiss him.
(c) Look upon him.
(d) Touch him.

10. ______________ was a great inventor who built the labyrinth for the Minotaur.
(a) Cercidas.
(b) Daedalus.
(c) Erinna.
(d) Arion.

11. ______________ was the god of the sea and brother of Zeus.
(a) Hera/Juno.
(b) Poseidon/Neptune.
(c) Zeus/Jupiter.
(d) Hades/Pluto.

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

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

14. The behavior of the Greek gods reflects the Greek attitude towards the beauty and perfection of _______.
(a) Man.
(b) God.
(c) Animals.
(d) Nature.

15. What was the fatal flaw of most Greek heroes?
(a) Their egos.
(b) Their empathy for mankind.
(c) Their intelligence.
(d) Their physical weakness.

Short Answer Questions

1. Later Greek writers include ______________, a lyric poet whose poems contained references to mythology, and the tragic playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.

2. Why did the Greeks create their myths, initially?

3. How did the Greek gods act?

4. Of what did Psyche become the goddess?

5. How is the creation myth of the Greeks peculiar?

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