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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Medea cut off and leave for her mother as a memorial of her virginity?
(a) A lock of hair.
(b) Her chastity belt.
(c) Her garder.
(d) Her chastity ring.

2. Who is the steersman on the voyage back to Hellas?
(a) Jason.
(b) Ankaios.
(c) Hercales.
(d) Typhios.

3. What god devises a "plan" to cleanse the Argonauts of the "blood of the murder" that they carry after killing Apsyrtos?
(a) Athena.
(b) Poseidon.
(c) Hera.
(d) Zeus.

4. Who did Hera give Thetis as a husband?
(a) Perseus.
(b) Odysseus.
(c) Peleus.
(d) Thesus.

5. Who does Eros crouch by when he shoots an arrow at Medea?
(a) Chalkiope.
(b) Aietes.
(c) Eidyia.
(d) Jason.

6. Who is Kirke the sister of?
(a) Medea.
(b) Apsyrtos.
(c) Aietes.
(d) Zeus.

7. How is Jason related to Aietes?
(a) Jason is a distant cousin of Aietes' father.
(b) Jason's father and Aietes' father are brothers.
(c) Aietes' mother is Jason's aunt.
(d) Aietes' father is Jason's uncle.

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

9. What does Medea say she will do to the bulls of the challenge?
(a) Blind them.
(b) Feed them heavily so they are too tired to fight.
(c) Drug them.
(d) Lead them for Jason.

10. Who does Hera bid to come see her from the sea after Jason and Medea leave Kirke's home?
(a) Poseidon.
(b) Thetis.
(c) Athena.
(d) Aphrodite.

11. What does Jason promise Medea when she offers to help him get the fleece?
(a) To take her to Hellas.
(b) All of these.
(c) To marry her.
(d) To take her to his home.

12. What goddess was rising as Medea fled the castle?
(a) Alectrona.
(b) Nike.
(c) Themis.
(d) Moon.

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

14. Who does Argos tell Jason they must win over to help Jason with his challenge?
(a) Athena.
(b) Hera.
(c) Aietes.
(d) Medea.

15. On the third day at sea, who does Medea say an offering needs to be made to?
(a) Athena.
(b) Poseidon.
(c) Hera.
(d) Hecate.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Aietes bury in the furrows that he plows with the bronze-hoofed bulls?

2. What does Medea kiss as she leaves the palace to flee with Jason?

3. What happens to the women of the Plain of Kirke when they die?

4. Where does Kypris find Eros playing with knucklebones with Ganymede?

5. Why does Jason say that their hopes of returning safely to Hellas are slim?

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