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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Cadmus founded the city of ___________ by killing a dragon and sowing its teeth.
(a) Sparta.
(b) Athens.
(c) Thebes.
(d) Thebeius.

2. When Odysseus blinded the Cyclops, he angered whom?
(a) The monster's father, Poseidon.
(b) The monster's uncle, Poseidon.
(c) The monster's brother, Poseidon.
(d) The monster's cousin, Poseidon.

3. These two sisters had __________ nieces.
(a) Five.
(b) Three.
(c) Four.
(d) Two.

4. Erysichthon was punished for cutting down a tree that was sacred to what goddess?
(a) Juno.
(b) Ceres.
(c) Venus.
(d) Athena.

5. Procris was happily married to Cephalus, until one day Aurora, the goddess of the dawn, ____________.
(a) Turned them against each other.
(b) Killed her.
(c) Killed him.
(d) Took him away for herself.

6. The two sisters escaped, but Tereus pursued them. The gods turned them all into what?
(a) Birds.
(b) Mammals.
(c) Reptiles.
(d) Insects.

7. Odysseus rescued the men before visiting the dead prophet ________________ in the underworld.
(a) Tyrtaeus.
(b) Tieresias.
(c) Theocritus.
(d) Theodectes.

8. Where were the murdering women punished?
(a) In prison.
(b) On Mt. Olympus.
(c) In the town square.
(d) In Tartarus.

9. King Laius heard a prophecy that his own son would kill him, so the baby was sent away to be left to die on a hillside. What did the servant do with the baby?
(a) He took it to the king and queen of Corinth.
(b) He left it as he was told.
(c) He killed it himself.
(d) He kept it and raised it as his own.

10. What form did Tereus take?
(a) An ugly praying mantis.
(b) An ugly bear.
(c) An ugly alligator.
(d) An ugly bird with a huge beak.

11. Cadmus married _____________, the daughter of Aphrodite and Ares.
(a) Harmon.
(b) Harmony.
(c) Harmonious.
(d) Harmonia.

12. Queen __________ welcomed Aeneas' group.
(a) Diana.
(b) Dido.
(c) Delacroix.
(d) Deloris.

13. The _____________ were fifty women who killed their husbands on the wedding night, with the exception of Hypermnestra, who woke her husband and helped him escape.
(a) Drekavac.
(b) Devalpa.
(c) Dobhar-chu.
(d) Danaïds.

14. Aeneas stayed with her for a time, but eventually ___________ sent a message telling him to remember his great destiny and to sail for Italy.
(a) Juno.
(b) Jupiter.
(c) Mars.
(d) Mercury.

15. Modern scholarship usually dates The Odyssey to around the ______ century BC.
(a) 7th.
(b) 5th.
(c) 6th.
(d) 8th.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Atreus kill and serve for dinner?

2. Why did Oedipus leave home and travel to Thebes?

3. Procne became a ______________ that sang mournfully for her dead son whom she now regretted killing.

4. Arachne claimed she could __________ better than the goddess Minerva.

5. Callisto was loved by Zeus and hated by Hera. Hera turned her into a _________ and arranged for her son to kill it.

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