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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. There are _______ different versions of the story of the creation of man.
(a) Three.
(b) Seven.
(c) Nine.
(d) Five.

2. What happened when Venus gave Psyche a series of impossible tasks?
(a) Psyche was always helped by sympathetic creatures.
(b) Psyche was unable to complete them.
(c) Psyche could easily complete them.
(d) Psyche ignored Venus' tasks.

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

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

5. Persephone was enchanted by Orpheus' music, and Hades agreed to release Eurydice, on what condition?
(a) Orpheus must not touch her until she was in the land of the living again.
(b) Orpheus must not ever look upon her.
(c) Orpheus must never touch her.
(d) Orpheus must not look back at her until she was in the land of the living again.

6. When they reached home, Medea helped Jason take revenge on whom?
(a) Pelias, his father's murderer.
(b) Phanocles, his mother's murderer .
(c) Phemonoe, his brother's murderer.
(d) Polyeidosis, his sister's murderer.

7. What turned crimson in honor of Pyramus and Thisbe's great love?
(a) The white mulberry berries.
(b) The white apple.
(c) The white strawberries.
(d) The white poinsettia leaves.

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

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

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

11. How does Medea save herself and Jason from the huge bronze man Talus?
(a) By hiding them in an enchanted tree.
(b) By calling for her mother.
(c) By tricking Talus.
(d) By calling the hounds of Hades to help.

12. Perseus was the son of Zeus and whom?
(a) A mortal woman.
(b) Hera.
(c) Venus.
(d) Artemis.

13. To punish men, Zeus sent them ___________.
(a) Plagues.
(b) Women.
(c) Disasters.
(d) Children.

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

15. Endymion was a shepherd who was loved by the Moon goddess __________.
(a) Severus.
(b) Sabinus.
(c) Serenus.
(d) Selene.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who was Medea?

2. Phaёthon was the son of the Sun-god ____________.

3. Pyramus and Thisbe agreed to meet by _________.

4. When a mortal committed a crime, broke an oath, or harmed a guest, they were seen to be ___________.

5. What happened when King Minos locked this inventor up in his own labyrinth?

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