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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. To where do the Harpies retire to after being banished from the Floating Islands?
(a) Up to Olympos.
(b) A cave.
(c) Across the sea.
(d) Hell.

2. What two men fought before the Agro left Hellas on its journey?
(a) Idas and Idmon.
(b) Idmon and Jason.
(c) Ankaios and Hercales.
(d) Jason and Hercales.

3. What animals do the Argonauts sacrifice to Apollo at Lyre?
(a) Oxen.
(b) Goats.
(c) Sheep.
(d) Cows.

4. Who steals all of Phineus's food?
(a) Sirens.
(b) Scavengers.
(c) Hera.
(d) Harpies.

5. To whom did the Amazon queens have a shine built?
(a) Demeter.
(b) Ares.
(c) Hera.
(d) Athena.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Jason's mother?

2. What, upon the night of Phineus's quest tale, do the Argonauts offer as sacrifice to Apollo?

3. Who is the "god of the shore"?

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

5. Which goddess leapt onto a cloud as the Argo departed from Phineus's land?

(see the answer key)

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