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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Five. The Royal House of Athens.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What do these myths show?
(a) How self-indulgent the gods could sometimes be.
(b) How cruel the gods could sometimes be.
(c) How forgetful the gods could sometimes be.
(d) How loving the gods could sometimes be.

2. Procne became a ______________ that sang mournfully for her dead son whom she now regretted killing.
(a) Cricket.
(b) Nightingale.
(c) Whippoorwhill.
(d) Robin.

3. Who composed the Odyssey?
(a) The Greek bard Plato.
(b) The Greek bard Homer.
(c) The Roman bard Plato.
(d) The Roman bard Homer.

4. Baucis and Philemon were an old couple who showed good hospitality towards ________________ when they visited them disguised as mortals.
(a) Juno and Pluto.
(b) Jupiter and Juno.
(c) Mars and Mercury.
(d) Jupiter and Mercury.

5. Odysseus rescued the men before visiting the dead prophet ________________ in the underworld.
(a) Tieresias.
(b) Theodectes.
(c) Theocritus.
(d) Tyrtaeus.

Short Answer Questions

1. One of the earliest kings was _______________, who ruled at the time Demeter brought agriculture to earth.

2. What happened when Venus gave Psyche a series of impossible tasks?

3. Persephone was enchanted by Orpheus' music, and Hades agreed to release Eurydice, on what condition?

4. This chapter describes a series of myths concerning the earliest kings and queens of Athens before who became king?

5. It was a moral tale that taught proper behavior toward whom?

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