2. This chapter describes a series of myths concerning the earliest kings and queens of Athens before who became king?
(a) Philomela.
(b) Erectheus.
(c) Theseus.
(d) Perseus.

3. What do these myths show?
(a) How loving the gods could sometimes be.
(b) How cruel the gods could sometimes be.
(c) How self-indulgent the gods could sometimes be.
(d) How forgetful the gods could sometimes be.

4. The society Aeneas founded would one day flourish into ___________.
(a) The great Roman Republic.
(b) The great nation of Greece.
(c) The great city of Athens.
(d) The great nation of Italy.

5. Odysseus' journey home to Ithaca took him ______ years, and he faced many fierce monsters and dangerous people along the way.
(a) Ten.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Five.

6. With whom did Agamemnon's wife have an affair?
(a) Her brother-in-law Aegisthus.
(b) His cousin Aegisthus.
(c) Her cousin Aegisthus.
(d) Her neighbor Aegisthus.

7. Orithyia was carried away against her will by whom?
(a) The god of the South Wind, Boreas.
(b) The god of the North Wind, Boreas.
(c) The god of the East Wind, Boreas.
(d) The god of the West Wind, Boreas.

8. This bad luck began with Tantalus, who served up his own son at a banquet for the gods, perhaps to do what?
(a) Confuse them.
(b) Poison them.
(c) Disgust them.
(d) Test or mock them.

9. Midas was a king rewarded by ______________ with any gift he chose.
(a) Bacchus.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Dionysius.
(d) Mercury.

10. 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 let her heavy head sink to the ground.
(b) She died.
(c) She wept yellow petals.
(d) She turned to face the sun.

11. Pelops' sons Atreus and Thyestes quarreled over Thyestes' affair with whom?
(a) Their mother.
(b) Hera.
(c) Princess Hippodamia.
(d) Atreus' wife.

12. This king had been told in a prophecy that his daughter Lavinia was destined to marry __________, and he believed this referred to Aeneas.
(a) A neighbor.
(b) A Greek.
(c) A stranger.
(d) Her cousin.

13. Later, Midas was given ___________ by Apollo for siding with Pan instead of Apollo in a music contest.
(a) A pig's tail.
(b) A pig's snout.
(c) Elephant ears.
(d) Asses' ears.

14. Agamemnon had sacrificed whom to Artemis in order to set sail for Troy?
(a) His wife.
(b) His neighbor.
(c) His niece.
(d) His own daughter.

15. Oedipus saved the city from _____________, a monster that asked riddles of travelers who passed by.
(a) The Succubus.
(b) The Lynx.
(c) The Gargoyle.
(d) The Sphinx.