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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Prometheus' liver every day?
(a) It reforms.
(b) It dies.
(c) It changes color.
(d) It comes to life.

2. How many days of winter are there according to 'Works and Days'?
(a) 60.
(b) 95.
(c) 29.
(d) 30.

3. What does Hesiod advise his brother to do in 'Works and Days'?
(a) Pray.
(b) Play.
(c) Work.
(d) Sin.

4. Who gives birth to Heaven, Hills and Pontius?
(a) Moon.
(b) Night.
(c) Earth.
(d) Chaos.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Hesiod tells the audience about a prophecy in 'Theogony.' What does Zeus do to his father that Earth and Heaven predicted?

2. In 'Works and Days', what does the author ask the Muses of Pieria for?

3. Who, in 'Works and Days', should plow men pray to in order to obtain good crops?

4. What does Hesiod say is the best type of man in his poem 'Works and Days'?

5. Who does Hesiod claim in 'Theogony' lives in the house of Zeus?

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