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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Agamemnon's son Orestes was instructed by Apollo's oracle to slay the murderer of his father. This meant killing whom?
(a) His brother.
(b) His own mother.
(c) His aunt.
(d) His sister.

2. The teeth turned into ______, who fought until five remained?
(a) Armed warriors.
(b) Ninjas.
(c) Nymphs.
(d) Little dragons.

3. Zeus snatched Callisto to safety and put her in the stars, where she became the __________________ constellation.
(a) The Owl.
(b) Great Bear.
(c) The Wild Duck.
(d) The Butterfly.

4. After escaping from Troy, Aeneas traveled with whom to find a new home?
(a) His men.
(b) His son, father, and a group of other survivors.
(c) His wife and children.
(d) His father and son.

5. 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.

6. 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) Mercury.
(b) Juno.
(c) Jupiter.
(d) Mars.

7. It was a moral tale that taught proper behavior toward whom?
(a) One's family.
(b) The gods.
(c) Oneself.
(d) One's neighbors and the gods.

8. What did Jocasta and Oedipus do when they realized they were mother and son?
(a) Jocasta killed Oedipus and then killed herself.
(b) They both blinded themselves.
(c) Oedipus killed Jocasta and then killed himself.
(d) Jocasta killed herself, and Oedipus blinded himself before going into exile.

9. This chapter gives brief summaries of _______________ more myths.
(a) Forty-one.
(b) Thirty-one.
(c) Twenty-one.
(d) Eleven.

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

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

12. 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 killed it himself.
(b) He took it to the king and queen of Corinth.
(c) He left it as he was told.
(d) He kept it and raised it as his own.

13. This son was worshiped afterward by the Greeks and the Romans as what?
(a) A god of healing.
(b) A god of love.
(c) A god of forgiveness.
(d) A god of peace.

14. Why did Oedipus leave home and travel to Thebes?
(a) He heard a prophecy that he would kill his father and marry his mother.
(b) He had a falling-out with his parents.
(c) He wanted adventure.
(d) He was unhappy at home.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. The Odyssey was in many ways a celebration of what it meant to be ___________.

2. __________ was a beautiful nymph who was loved by a sea god called Glaucus.

3. Who composed the Odyssey?

4. Procris was happily married to Cephalus, until one day Aurora, the goddess of the dawn, ____________.

5. This chapter describes a series of myths concerning the earliest kings and queens of Athens before who became king?

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