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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Works and Days.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Whose conception does the speaker write about at the start of 'Theogony'?
(a) The Muses.
(b) Euarne.
(c) Hercules.
(d) Zeus.

2. Who gives birth to Themisto, Pronoe and Nemertes?
(a) Hercules.
(b) Nereus and Doris.
(c) Nerues.
(d) Doris.

3. What did the Muses give the speaker in 'Theogony'?
(a) A divine voice.
(b) A fluent pen.
(c) A swift paint brush.
(d) A world as a stage.

4. Who is the hound of Hades?
(a) Icarus.
(b) Meradus.
(c) The Minotaur.
(d) Cerberus.

5. In 'Theogony', what story does the speaker ask the Muses to tell him first?
(a) How the rain came.
(b) How fire was invented.
(c) How the first gods and earth came to be.
(d) Who invented the wheel.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Hesiod claim in 'Theogony' that Prometheus steals from Zeus?

2. In 'Works and Days', when does Hesiod tell his brother he should chop wood?

3. How many heads does Chimaera have?

4. What happens to the silver generation when Zeus puts them away?

5. How is Medusa killed in 'Theogony'?

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