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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. In 'Works and Days', what should the slaves do when Orion appears?
(a) Cut the corn.
(b) Churn the butter.
(c) Winnow the grain.
(d) Run.

2. In Hesiod's poem 'Works and Days', what does Zeus make man better than?
(a) Beasts.
(b) The Mountains.
(c) Gods.
(d) The heavens.

3. Who is Justice?
(a) A mortal.
(b) A Muse.
(c) Zeus's daughter.
(d) Athena's daughter.

4. Hesiod discusses the lineage of several Gods in 'Theogony'. Who is Zeus' father?
(a) Heracles.
(b) Gyes.
(c) Cuttus.
(d) Cronus.

5. How does Zeus punish men who marry according to 'Theogony'?
(a) They will live forever.
(b) They will live in a mixture of good and evil.
(c) The will die a cruel death.
(d) They will cry forever.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the speaker of 'Theogony' supposed to celebrate?

2. Why, in 'Theogony', is the woman whose guile is not to be withstood by men created?

3. Where do the Muses live?

4. According to 'Works and Days', where does Zeus place the survivors of the fourth generation?

5. Whose conception does the speaker write about at the start of 'Theogony'?

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