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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4: Chapter 7-9.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who do Theseus and his friend find on the side of the road?
(a) A woman penniless and starving.
(b) A man beaten and left for dead.
(c) A traveling group of entertainers.
(d) Merchants selling goods.

2. What is the name of the palace where the bull dancers will be training?
(a) Knosses.
(b) Nisos.
(c) Hellene.
(d) Pylas.

3. Who wants the king of Crete to die and is the one who is believed to have infected him?
(a) Theseus.
(b) The queen.
(c) Ariadne.
(d) Asterion.

4. What does the man who slapped Theseus across the face call Poseidon?
(a) Sea-daddy.
(b) Fish-daddy.
(c) Father of the sea.
(d) King of the sea.

5. Why does Theseus' mother call on an oracle to look at Theseus' journey?
(a) She's worried for his safety.
(b) She wants to be able to tell him his future.
(c) She is hoping he will find gold.
(d) She wants to know if he'll be successful.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does the oracle announce about Theseus' journey?

2. What is the name of the road on which Theseus travels to Athens?

3. What is the name of Theseus' childhood friend who begs to come with him?

4. What does Theseus think of the person who tells him the gods favor him?

5. When the man threw the item into the sea on the day that Theseus arrived, what was that a symbol of?

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