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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Three: Jason and Medea.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who asks Athena about a possible plan to insure the Argonauts success?
(a) Demeter.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Hera.
(d) Zeus.

2. What does Aietes plan to do to the Argo when Jason fails at his challenge?
(a) Sink it as offering to Posiedon.
(b) Send it unmanned out to sea.
(c) Tear it apart and throw the pieces over the mountain.
(d) Burn it.

3. Who was the first person that the men aboard the Argo wanted as their leader?
(a) Argos.
(b) The son of Aison.
(c) Jason.
(d) Hercales.

4. Whose scepter does Jason take with him to speak to Aietes in regard to the fleece?
(a) Tyche.
(b) Erinyes.
(c) Helios.
(d) Hermes.

5. What does Medea say she will do after Jason finds success in his challenge and leaves her father's lands?
(a) Hide aboard his ship.
(b) Kill herself.
(c) Admit all to her father and suffer the punishment.
(d) Force him to marry her.

Short Answer Questions

1. What items do the men, while preparing to ready the Argo, lay out on a rock?

2. Who is the father of Polyphemus?

3. How many daughters does Aietes have?

4. Whose is Telamon's grandfather?

5. To whose sons does Lykos build a shine to on the Acherousian headlands?

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