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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose knowledge is related to the Muses, according to the poet in The Hymn to the Muses?
(a) Poseidon.
(b) Ares.
(c) Apollo.
(d) Zeus.

2. When is Anchises bewitched by Aphrodite's beauty?
(a) One week after they meet.
(b) Three days after they meet.
(c) Two days after they meet.
(d) Immediately.

3. Which one of the following corresponds to an ancient tradition about Homer?
(a) He was the creator of the Greek alphabet.
(b) He spent most of his life alone.
(c) He was blind.
(d) He did not live in Ancient Rome or Greece.

4. Which argument does the poet describe in The Hymn to Dionysus?
(a) The argument between Dionysus and the helmsman.
(b) The argument between Dionysus, the helmsman, and the captain.
(c) The argument between Dionysus and the captain.
(d) The argument between the helmsman and the captain.

5. What does the poem in The Third Hymn to Aphrodite describe?
(a) Aphrodite's intelligence.
(b) Aphrodite's influences.
(c) Aphrodite's friends.
(d) Aphrodite's seductive power.

Short Answer Questions

1. Which one of the following is not a well known recurrent theme of Ancient Greek literature?

2. How is Apollo's birth described?

3. When does Aphrodite say that Aeneas, the child she has with Anchises, will be able to return to earth?

4. Based on the hymn, how did the men that Hephaistos represents live?

5. Why do so many places in Greece refuse to allow Apollo's mother entrance?

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