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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. These two sisters had __________ nieces.
(a) Four.
(b) Five.
(c) Three.
(d) Two.

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

3. Odysseus' journey home to Ithaca took him ______ years, and he faced many fierce monsters and dangerous people along the way.
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Twenty.
(c) Five.
(d) Ten.

4. Odysseus alone survived and washed up on the shore of the island of ______________, where a sea-nymph who kept him captive for years.
(a) Calypso.
(b) Caliope.
(c) Caliente.
(d) Conga.

5. What turned crimson in honor of Pyramus and Thisbe's great love?
(a) The white apple.
(b) The white poinsettia leaves.
(c) The white mulberry berries.
(d) The white strawberries.

Short Answer Questions

1. On Circe's island the men were turned into what?

2. Creüsa was raped by what god?

3. Pyramus and Thisbe agreed to meet by _________.

4. Why was Venus jealous of Psyche?

5. Modern scholarship usually dates The Odyssey to around the ______ century BC.

(see the answer key)

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