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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Important themes in the myths connected to the House of Thebes include the importance of proper respect for the gods, and the importance of ________,
(a) Love.
(b) Human life.
(c) Proper burial.
(d) Respect for one's elders.

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

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

4. Chiron was a wise and noble ______________ who looked after and trained heroes.
(a) Satyr.
(b) Elf.
(c) Nymph.
(d) Centaur.

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

6. 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) Her cousin.
(c) A Greek.
(d) A stranger.

7. Odysseus and his men faced man eating monsters and strange magic, losing how many ships on their journey?
(a) All but two ships.
(b) All but one ship.
(c) One.
(d) All of them.

8. This story is very different from the other myths in the book for ____________ reasons.
(a) Very few.
(b) Three.
(c) Two.
(d) Several.

9. Minerva beat Arachne for her insolence and destroyed her work. What did Arachne do?
(a) She hanged herself.
(b) She jumped off the edge of a cliff.
(c) She stabbed herself with her lute.
(d) She went into exile.

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

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

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

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

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

15. Pelops then refused to honor his bribe and killed Myrtilus, who _____________.
(a) Poisoned Pelops.
(b) Called down a curse on his already corrupted family.
(c) Killed Pelops' children.
(d) Killed the princess before he died.

Short Answer Questions

1. Why was Dryope transformed into a tree?

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

3. The Horn of Plenty, or the Cornucopia, was magically always full of what?

4. The gods were furious and sent him to ______________, a section for punishment in the underworld.

5. Amalthea was a _________ whose milk fed Zeus.

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