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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Six. The Less Important Myths - Midas and Others.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. The gods were furious and sent him to ______________, a section for punishment in the underworld.
(a) Tarrantala.
(b) Tartarus.
(c) Tartar.
(d) Titanium.

2. When a Trojan prince called Paris was asked to judge a beauty contest between three goddesses, who bribed him with the offer of the most beautiful woman in the world?
(a) Aphrodite.
(b) Artemis.
(c) Hera.
(d) Athena.

3. Proper _____________ was also considered very important in order to appease the spirits of the dead.
(a) Prayer.
(b) Dress.
(c) Memorial services.
(d) Mourning.

4. Pomona was a nymph of orchards who was loved by whom?
(a) Xenocles.
(b) Vertumnus.
(c) Lycophron.
(d) Hermippus.

5. Earlier heroes were superhuman individuals who fought alone against monsters and strange creatures, while the Trojan heroes fought whom?
(a) Monsters and strange creatures as part of an army.
(b) Other men in small militias.
(c) Other men as part of an army.
(d) Other men, alone.

Short Answer Questions

1. The House of Thebes was in many ways as unlucky as the House of Atreus, but their troubles seemed ________.

2. Out of this came Night and Death, then Light, followed by Earth (_________) and Heaven (Ouranos, or Uranus).

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

4. What happened to Antigone when she ignored Creon's edict and buried her brother?

5. To whom was Helen married?

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