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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Two: Onward to Colchis.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who starts to play the lyre and sing while two men fight before the Agro leaves on its journey?
(a) Orpheus.
(b) Pelion.
(c) Tiphys.
(d) Ophion.

2. How many men, from the Assyrian territory, join the Argonauts
(a) 2.
(b) 3.
(c) 4.
(d) 6.

3. According to Book I, who has the sharpest mind of any mortal?
(a) Aloes.
(b) Pellen.
(c) Lynkeus.
(d) Kasto.

4. What does Phineus tell the Argonauts to avoid as they proceed to Bithynians?
(a) The Sirens.
(b) The rocks.
(c) The reefs.
(d) The sea vines.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. From what goddess do the Amazon women descend from?

2. Who dies as the result of a boar attack while leaving from Lykos's lands?

3. Who else dies as the Argonauts are waiting to leave Lykos's land?

4. Who is given the task of guiding the rudder of the Agro?

5. Who rules over Eleans?

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