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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. ________________ 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.

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

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

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

5. What did Medea do to the daughter of the king of Corinth?
(a) She killed her.
(b) She hid her.
(c) She tortured her.
(d) She saved her.

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

7. Pygmalion fell in love with the statue of a woman that he had created. Venus took pity on his aching heart and turned the statue into a real, living woman. Pygmalion married her and named her ____________.
(a) Gaetulicus.
(b) Gnaeus.
(c) Galatea.
(d) Gallus.

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

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

10. Of what did Psyche become the goddess?
(a) The mind.
(b) The soul.
(c) The heart.
(d) The body.

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

12. Earlier heroes were superhuman individuals who fought alone against monsters and strange creatures, while the Trojan heroes fought whom?
(a) Other men in small militias.
(b) Other men, alone.
(c) Monsters and strange creatures as part of an army.
(d) Other men as part of an army.

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

14. The Romans believed in the Olympian gods, giving them different ___________.
(a) Jobs.
(b) Names.
(c) Personalities.
(d) Attributes.

15. Another story tells that Zeus was angry with early men and sent what to destroy them?
(a) A great snow storm.
(b) A swarm of locusts.
(c) A great flood.
(d) A plague.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. How was Achilles killed by Paris?

3. The heroes of the Trojan War, also called __________ heroes, were slightly different from the older mythological heroes such as Hercules, Perseus and Theseus.

4. Perseus was the son of Zeus and whom?

5. ______________ was a great inventor who built the labyrinth for the Minotaur.

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