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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to the body of the person that's killed every year in the town?
(a) The body is cremated and the ashes spread over the fields.
(b) The body is thrown into the sea.
(c) The body is buried in the town's cemetery.
(d) The body is plowed into the field.

2. What do the people of the town believe must happen every year?
(a) A new king must be crowned.
(b) The queen must sacrifice one of her children.
(c) The queen must have another child.
(d) A new queen must be crowned.

3. After he returns home from battle, what does Theseus tell the queen?
(a) He is leaving her and not coming back.
(b) He has to go to Athens to defeat the king.
(c) He wants her to have his baby.
(d) He has to go to Athens to have the king cleanse him of his killing.

4. Where does Theseus' father rule?
(a) Athens.
(b) Crete.
(c) Troizen.
(d) Hellene.

5. Who is Theseus' father the son of?
(a) Minos.
(b) Pandion.
(c) Pittheus.
(d) Kekrops.

6. Why does Theseus' chariot crash?
(a) Another chariot crashed into Theseus' chariot.
(b) Theseus' driver was driving recklessly.
(c) Theseus was run off course by the opposing army.
(d) One of the bronze lynch pins in Theseus' chariot had been replaced with a wax one.

7. Whom does Theseus send away on a boat?
(a) The king of Athens.
(b) The queen and her children.
(c) The soldiers of Eleusis.
(d) The people of Eleusis.

8. Who requested the death of Theseus?
(a) Persephone.
(b) Sinis.
(c) Aigeus.
(d) Pylas.

9. What does Theseus and his men come upon at the end of the borders?
(a) The gangs and thieves have joined forces with another kingdom to fight.
(b) The gangs and thieves have rallied themselves to a battlefield to fight.
(c) A deserted battlefield.
(d) The gangs and thieves have come to surrender.

10. How does Theseus' father agree to treat the people in Eleusis?
(a) As servants.
(b) As equals.
(c) As better than Athenians.
(d) Beneath the people of Athens.

11. Who seeks to take the throne from Aigeus?
(a) His cousin.
(b) His uncle.
(c) His sister.
(d) His two brothers.

12. What is the name of the road on which Theseus travels to Athens?
(a) Nisos Road.
(b) Troizen Road.
(c) Eleusis Road.
(d) Isthmus Road.

13. How many women had Aigeus been married to before he met Theseus' mother?
(a) Three.
(b) Four.
(c) Two.
(d) One.

14. What does Theseus discover when reaching the palace?
(a) The queen has killed herself.
(b) The queen waiting in anticipation of his arrival.
(c) The queen waiting to kill him.
(d) The queen is ill.

15. Who do the people of the town care more for as their leader?
(a) The Princess.
(b) The King.
(c) The Prince.
(d) The Queen.

Short Answer Questions

1. In Theseus' dream, what does he use to move the rock?

2. Who is the ruler of the neighboring kingdom?

3. Why does Simo make fun of Theseus?

4. How does Theseus make the people in the camp feel?

5. How is Theseus' grandfather feeling when Theseus comes to visit him?

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