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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. With whom did Agamemnon's wife have an affair?

2. The two sisters escaped, but Tereus pursued them. The gods turned them all into what?

3. Odysseus' adventures were told in the _________ poem The Odyssey.

4. Zeus snatched Callisto to safety and put her in the stars, where she became the __________________ constellation.

5. Whom did Atreus kill and serve for dinner?

Short Essay Questions

1. How did Odysseus' adventures make him a hero?

2. How is Aeneas' story unique?

3. What are two important lessons taught in the Odyssey?

4. How did visiting the underworld mark Aeneas as a special hero? What does this say about the Greek's view of the afterlife?

5. How is this bad luck tied to the future of the city of Thebes?

6. What story explains the creation of spiders? How does this explain the creation of spiders?

7. Why is the Odyssey considered an epic poem? Why was it so important to the Greeks?

8. What is the moral message of this family's stories?

9. How did the bad luck of the later generations reflect the bad luck of the earlier generations? What does this say about the tie between one generation and another?

10. How does the story of Procne, Philomela, and Tereus explain the origins of species?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Mythology has been an important part of human cultures around the world.

Part 1) Support this statement with information from this text, as well as information you have learned from other sources. Why is mythology so important to humans? What does it provide mankind?

Part 2) Why have certain mythologies, such as Greek mythology, been so important for other cultures besides their own? How has Greek mythology and Greek culture influenced other areas of the world? How are the cultures of others seen in the way people live in the United States, and even in the way our country operates?

Part 3) Does modern mythology exist? If so, what is it? If not, why not? What information and beliefs from today will be passed on to future generations? How might our beliefs and ideas influence those living in the future? Use the text to support your response.

Essay Topic 2

Greeks had a low opinion of women.

Part 1) Support the statement "Greeks had a low opinion of women" with information from this book. Why might the Greeks have had such a low opinion of women? How might this have affected the lives of women in ancient Greece?

Part 2) How do other world religions today view women? How does this view of women compare to that of the Greeks? What might be the reasons for any similarities and/or differences in this view of women?

Part 3) Has the view of women changed greatly over the centuries? If so, how? If not, why not? What can be done to continue to encourage equality between the sexes?

Essay Topic 3

There are two families discussed in this book who suffer greatly.

Part 1) Who are these two families? How did they become so unlucky? Were they deserving of this bad luck? Why or why not? Could this luck have been avoided? If so, how? If not, why not? Could anyone in these families have stopped the passing along of bad luck? If so, how? If not, why not?

Part 2) What do these stories say about those who act poorly and offend the gods? What do these stories also say about the gods themselves? In our own culture, do we believe that bad luck can be passed down through a family? Why or why not?

Part 3) Do you believe in luck? Why or why not? How did you come to have this belief? How does this belief influence your daily decisions and actions? Might your belief regarding luck ever change? If so, how? If not, why not?

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