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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Four. The Adventures of Aeneas.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. Pegasus was used to help kill the fearsome monster called the Chimaera, which had the body and head of a fire-breathing _______, a goat's head in the middle of its back, and a snake for a tail.
(a) Dragon.
(b) Lion.
(c) Tiger.
(d) Horse.

3. Pyramus and Thisbe agreed to meet by _________.
(a) A spruce tree.
(b) A pine tree.
(c) A mulberry tree.
(d) An oak tree.

4. ________________ was the goddess of marriage and women.
(a) Hades/Pluto.
(b) Zeus/Jupiter.
(c) Hera/Juno.
(d) Poseidon/Neptune.

5. Achilles could not stand the slight to his honor that Agamemnon brought about by ______________.
(a) Claiming his daughter.
(b) Claiming his wife.
(c) Claiming his slave-girl.
(d) Claiming his property.

Short Answer Questions

1. ______________ was the god of the sea and brother of Zeus.

2. The Greeks finally won the war with __________.

3. What happened when King Minos locked this inventor up in his own labyrinth?

4. Earlier heroes were superhuman individuals who fought alone against monsters and strange creatures, while the Trojan heroes fought whom?

5. The heroes of the Trojan War, also called __________ heroes, were slightly different from the older mythological heroes such as Hercules, Perseus and Theseus.

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