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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What is the job of the Muses that 'Theogony' deems most important?
(a) Create poetry for the Greeks.
(b) Feed dew to heaven-chosen princes.
(c) Sing to Zeus.
(d) Feed Zeus grapes.

2. Where is Zeus born?
(a) Lyetus of Crete.
(b) Rome, Italy.
(c) In heaven.
(d) On top of a mountain.

3. Who eventually give Zeus thunder?
(a) The Cyclopes.
(b) Cronos.
(c) Earth.
(d) Hera.

4. Why, in 'Theogony', is the woman whose guile is not to be withstood by men created?
(a) As the price for water.
(b) Because Zeus is bored.
(c) Because man is bored.
(d) As the price for fire.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. In 'Theogony', how does Zeus say men who will do not marry will be punished?

2. What gift do Apollo and the muses give humans in 'Theogony'?

3. Who slays Geryones?

4. What prophecy do Heaven and Earth tell Cronus about in 'Theogony'?

5. Hesiod discusses the lineage of several Gods in 'Theogony'. Who is Zeus' father?

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