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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. In the Plain of Kirke, what hangs from the elm and willow branches?
(a) Flower and fruit wreaths.
(b) Baskets of offereings to the gods.
(c) Corpses.
(d) Sliver fleece.

2. What had Hephaistos fashioned for Aietes' palace that had a bronze mouth and breathed fire?
(a) Dragons.
(b) Bulls.
(c) Lions.
(d) Serpents.

3. Where does Kypris find Eros playing with knucklebones with Ganymede?
(a) In Zeus' wheat field.
(b) In Zeus' orchard.
(c) By the river.
(d) In the stables.

4. 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 weapons.
(d) Their clothes.

5. When singing of the lineage of heroes, who does the narrator state inspires his song?
(a) The Muses.
(b) Aphrodite.
(c) Jason.
(d) Hera.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whose palace does Athena go to to ask for help for Jason's quest?

2. Which goddess helped Jason to get the Argos?

3. Who does Eros crouch by when he shoots an arrow at Medea?

4. What animal does the son of Leto state has shown him of the "ill-omens" of the journey that the men are getting ready to embark upon?

5. As darkness brought on the first night at Bebrykian, what sounds kept many from sleeping?

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