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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Hymns to Hermes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the length of the shortest hymn?
(a) Three lines.
(b) Two paragraphs.
(c) Two lines.
(d) Three paragraphs.

2. What does the helmsman of the boat recognize?
(a) The holiness of the prisoner.
(b) The danger that the crew is in.
(c) That the boat was sinking.
(d) That the boat was going off course.

3. What meter are the hymns composed in?
(a) Tetrameter.
(b) Hexameter.
(c) Pentameter.
(d) Trimeter.

4. In what way does the author describe how Earth's blessings manifest themselves in females?
(a) Courage.
(b) Warmth.
(c) Tenderness.
(d) Beauty.

5. What was the syallabic script used by the Greeks in the late Bronze Age?
(a) Linear B.
(b) Linear D.
(c) Linear C.
(d) Linear A.

Short Answer Questions

1. What way does the poet describe the manifestation of Earth's blessings in children?

2. In The Hymn to the Earth, what does the poet refer to the Earth as?

3. In a tribute, which Greek historian attributes the "Hymn to Apollo" to Homer?

4. What is the difference between the first and second hymns to Artemis?

5. What is the purpose of the first hymn to Artemis?

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