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

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. After encountering some of the same dangers that Odysseus and Jason faced on their adventures, a storm washed Aeneas and his fellow travelers up near Carthage on the north coast of _________.
(a) North America.
(b) Asia.
(c) Africa.
(d) South America.

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

4. Pelops married Princess Hippodamia after defeating her father in ____________ to win her hand.
(a) A jousting match.
(b) A chariot race.
(c) Game of chess.
(d) A foot race.

5. Who composed the Odyssey?
(a) The Roman bard Plato.
(b) The Greek bard Homer.
(c) The Greek bard Plato.
(d) The Roman bard Homer.

6. Who were Atreus' children?
(a) Moschus and Apollodorus.
(b) Mimnermus and Antimachus.
(c) Moppian and Aratus.
(d) Menelaus and Agamemnon.

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

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

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

10. Proper _____________ was also considered very important in order to appease the spirits of the dead.
(a) Memorial services.
(b) Mourning.
(c) Dress.
(d) Prayer.

11. The story of Agamemnon shows how terrible acts could cause what?
(a) Disease.
(b) Punishment from the gods on the individual performing these terrible acts.
(c) A form religious pollution.
(d) Problems for an entire city or nation.

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

13. One of the earliest kings was _______________, who ruled at the time Demeter brought agriculture to earth.
(a) Philomela.
(b) Perseus.
(c) Erectheus.
(d) Theseus.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. 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?

2. How did this beautiful nymph feel about Glaucus?

3. What did Jocasta and Oedipus do when they realized they were mother and son?

4. Agamemnon's son Orestes was instructed by Apollo's oracle to slay the murderer of his father. This meant killing whom?

5. Important themes in the myths connected to the House of Thebes include the importance of proper respect for the gods, and the importance of ________,

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