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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book One: Preparation and Departure.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What items do the men, while preparing to ready the Argo, lay out on a rock?
(a) Their meat to dry.
(b) Their voyage logs.
(c) Their clothes.
(d) Their weapons.

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

3. Whose home was Gyrton?
(a) Cheiron.
(b) Demeter.
(c) Larisa.
(d) Coronos.

4. Which part of the ox is sacrificed, prior the Agro leaving Hellas?
(a) The interanal organs.
(b) The breast pieces.
(c) The thigh pieces.
(d) The heart.

5. What does Iphias kiss as Jason leaves for his journey?
(a) His hand.
(b) His elbow.
(c) His shield.
(d) His cheek.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Jason arrives at Anaurus, to whom the banquet was in honor of?

2. While the heroes are on the way to Magnesian Pagasai, what does the text compare the heroes to?

3. Who is Jason's mother?

4. On what coast does Jason travel to to meet the Argo?

5. Whose "famous deeds" is the narrator speaking of in the opening of Book I?

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