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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The society Aeneas founded would one day flourish into ___________.
(a) The great nation of Italy.
(b) The great nation of Greece.
(c) The great city of Athens.
(d) The great Roman Republic.

2. Whom did Atreus kill and serve for dinner?
(a) His own children.
(b) Thyestes' children.
(c) Princess Hippodamia's children.
(d) Hera's children.

3. Aurora, goddess of ___________, loved a mortal named Tithonus.
(a) The dawn.
(b) The evening.
(c) The night.
(d) Dusk.

4. The gods were furious and sent him to ______________, a section for punishment in the underworld.
(a) Titanium.
(b) Tarrantala.
(c) Tartarus.
(d) Tartar.

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

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

7. ________________ was the son of Apollo and a mortal woman whom Apollo killed for being unfaithful.
(a) Aulus.
(b) Archias.
(c) Aesculapius.
(d) Antimachus.

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

9. Glaucus went to the witch Circe to ask for a love potion. How did Circe feel about the situation?
(a) Worried that Glaucus would never be loved by the nymph.
(b) Annoyed that Glaucus would waste her time on a love potion.
(c) Happy that Glaucus asked her for help.
(d) Furious that Glaucus loved Scylla and not her.

10. 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 kept it and raised it as his own.
(c) He killed it himself.
(d) He left it as he was told.

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

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

13. 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) Asia.
(b) South America.
(c) North America.
(d) Africa.

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

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Pelops' sons Atreus and Thyestes quarreled over Thyestes' affair with whom?

2. Agamemnon had sacrificed whom to Artemis in order to set sail for Troy?

3. The teeth turned into ______, who fought until five remained?

4. What do these myths show?

5. This king had been told in a prophecy that his daughter Lavinia was destined to marry __________, and he believed this referred to Aeneas.

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