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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two. The Quest of the Golden Fleece, and Four Great Adventures.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Homer, an ancient Greek _________, provided a lot of important insight in his epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey.
(a) Novelist.
(b) Singer.
(c) Musician.
(d) Poet.

2. Whose family survived Zeus' anger?
(a) Aristophanes'.
(b) Diogenes'.
(c) Zeus'.
(d) Prometheus'.

3. When a mortal committed a crime, broke an oath, or harmed a guest, they were seen to be ___________.
(a) Displeasing and dishonoring the gods.
(b) God-like.
(c) Barbaric.
(d) Powerful.

4. Later Greek writers include ______________, a lyric poet whose poems contained references to mythology, and the tragic playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.
(a) Pindar.
(b) Elephantis.
(c) Ovid.
(d) Odysseus.

5. There are _______ different versions of the story of the creation of man.
(a) Three.
(b) Five.
(c) Nine.
(d) Seven.

Short Answer Questions

1. The Greeks saw perfection in the ideal beauty of __________, and they used it as a model for their statues of the gods. .

2. When Zeus was born, what did Cronus' wife Rhea do?

3. When they reached home, Medea helped Jason take revenge on whom?

4. Pygmalion fell in love with the statue of a woman that he had created. Venus took pity on his aching heart and turned the statue into a real, living woman. Pygmalion married her and named her ____________.

5. The main gods, or ______________, lived on Mount Olympus.

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