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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book 4: Athamas and Ino | Book 4: The Transformation of Cadmus | Book 4: Perseus and Andromeda | Book 5: Perseus' Fight in the Palace of Cepheus.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. In Ovid's version of the creation of the earth, what are the first two forces to be separated?
(a) Land from water.
(b) Heavy air from light air.
(c) Humans from gods.
(d) Light from dark.
2. As Cadmus and his wife mourn Athamas and Ino, what animals are they turned into by their grief?
(a) Goldfish.
(b) Toads.
(c) Snakes.
(d) Dolphins.
3. Why does Juno become enraged with Athamas and Ino?
(a) For blaspheming her name.
(b) For stealing crops from the poor.
(c) For killing a water nymph.
(d) For being good parents.
4. How does Pyramus kill himself?
(a) He stabs himself with a sword.
(b) He drowns himself in the sea.
(c) He tears his own heart in two.
(d) He drinks a vile of poison.
5. How does Juno punish the servants living in Athamas and Ino's house?
(a) She turns them to stone.
(b) She feeds them to poisonous snakes.
(c) She transforms them into rats.
(d) She drowns them in a river.
Short Answer Questions
1. With what is the Sun's palace adorned?
2. In response to Juno's actions against Tiresias, what gift does Jupiter give the old man?
3. After Tiresias is struck by a stick, what is changed about him?
4. In what "age of time" does war begin to break out, but there is still a sense of normality in the daily lives of the people?
5. Who does Cupid's first arrow hit?
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