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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Callisto was loved by Zeus and hated by Hera. Hera turned her into a _________ and arranged for her son to kill it.
(a) Bear.
(b) Rabbit.
(c) Moose.
(d) Butterfly.

2. Orithyia's two sons were heroes who accompanied ____________ on his voyage.
(a) Jason.
(b) Theseus.
(c) Aeneas.
(d) Odysseus.

3. The Odyssey was in many ways a celebration of what it meant to be ___________.
(a) Wealthy, Greek.
(b) Powerful, Greek.
(c) Civilized, Greek.
(d) Intelligent, Greek.

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

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

6. 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) Devalpa.
(b) Danaïds.
(c) Dobhar-chu.
(d) Drekavac.

7. Queen Amata, the king's wife, was not happy with this and neither was Turnus, the Rutulian king. Why was Turnus not happy about this?
(a) He did not like Greeks.
(b) He was in love with Queen Amata.
(c) He wanted Lavinia for himself.
(d) He did not like the stranger.

8. On Circe's island the men were turned into what?
(a) Cows.
(b) Pigs.
(c) Snakes.
(d) Chickens.

9. Amymone was pursued by a ________ but saved by Poseidon.
(a) Gnome.
(b) Dwarf.
(c) Satyr.
(d) Troll.

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

11. Arachne claimed she could __________ better than the goddess Minerva.
(a) Dance.
(b) Weave.
(c) Sing.
(d) Play the lute.

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

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

14. 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.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Proper _____________ was also considered very important in order to appease the spirits of the dead.

2. It was a moral tale that taught proper behavior toward whom?

3. Odysseus' journey home to Ithaca took him ______ years, and he faced many fierce monsters and dangerous people along the way.

4. Midas asked for whatever he touched to turn to what?

5. Pomona was a nymph of orchards who was loved by whom?

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