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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is another word that depicts the form of art that Athena is associated with?
(a) Weaving.
(b) Dancing.
(c) Music.
(d) Painting.

2. What suffers as a result of Demeter's quest to find her daughter?
(a) Only the crops of Greece.
(b) The crops of the whole world.
(c) Nothing.
(d) Only the crops of Rome and Greece.

3. How does the poet describe the cowardice he would like to "shake off" in The Hymn to Ares?
(a) Unnecessary.
(b) Daunting.
(c) Cruel.
(d) Irrational.

4. What does the poet pray for at the end of The Hymn to Herakles?
(a) Excellence and wealth.
(b) Fortune and wealth.
(c) Excellence, fortune, and wealth.
(d) Excellence and fortune.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who is Hera's husband?

2. What does Hermes use to enable him to fly as he disguises his theft?

3. Which one of Athena's attributes is the subject of the final Hymn to Athena?

4. Where is Demeter's daughter taken when she is kidnapped?

5. Whose house does the poet mention at the end of The Second Hymn to Hestia because it is blessed by Hestia?

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