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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How many daughters does Aietes have?
(a) 2.
(b) 1.
(c) 3.
(d) 4.

2. 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.

3. After Jason completed his challenge, what does Aietes spend all night pondering?
(a) How to kill all of the Argonauts.
(b) How to gain back his peoples' faith.
(c) How to punish Medea.
(d) How to refuse the giving of the fleece.

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

5. Which goddess causes Medea to change her mind about killing herself?
(a) Demeter.
(b) Aphrodite.
(c) Athena.
(d) Hera.

6. What type of animal does Kirke use to soak Jason and Medea's hands in blood?
(a) A sheep.
(b) A boar.
(c) A dove.
(d) A pig.

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

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

9. What area does Medea step out onto from the Argo as she comes to the place where the fleece is?
(a) "The Bull's Bed."
(b) "The Ram's Bed."
(c) "Zeus' Bed."
(d) "Aiolos' Bed."

10. What animal speaks to Jason and Moposos to tell them of the plan for Jason to meet Medea?
(a) A crow.
(b) A bull.
(c) A dove.
(d) A sheep.

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

12. What happens to the women of the Plain of Kirke when they die?
(a) They are put on boats and put out to sea.
(b) They are cremated.
(c) They buried in the earth.
(d) They are placed in a sacrifical tomb to Zeus.

13. What gift does the Argonauts send to Apsyrtos, as part of their plan to deceive him?
(a) An arrow from Eros.
(b) A lightning bolt from Zeus.
(c) The shoes of Hermes.
(d) The holy, purple robe of Hypsipyle.

14. Who devises a plan regarding the continuation of the voyage after the battle with the Colchians?
(a) Aiakos.
(b) Jason.
(c) Peleus.
(d) Medea.

15. What muse does the narrator ask to "stand beside" him and tell of how Jason procured the Golden Fleece?
(a) Aoide.
(b) Mneme.
(c) Melete.
(d) Erato.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who does the narrator ask to reveal the thoughts of Medea at the opening of Book Four?

2. How many streams flowed from the Aietes' palace doors?

3. Whose is Telamon's grandfather?

4. What does Medea promise to do to the dragon so that Jason may get the fleece?

5. Who fell from Helios's chariot into the waters of Eridanos?

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