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

2. Why did Hercules kill his wife and children?
(a) He was tortured into killing them.
(b) He was framed for the killing of his family.
(c) Hera had put him under a spell.
(d) He was evil.

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

4. Queen __________ welcomed Aeneas' group.
(a) Delacroix.
(b) Diana.
(c) Deloris.
(d) Dido.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Later Greek writers include ______________, a lyric poet whose poems contained references to mythology, and the tragic playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.

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

3. Why did visiting the underworld mark Aeneas as a very special hero?

4. According to the Greeks, in the beginning there was only __________.

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

(see the answer key)

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