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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part One. How the World and Mankind Were Created, and The Earliest Heroes.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. How is the creation myth of the Greeks peculiar?
(a) The gods had different personalities.
(b) The gods did not create the universe or the world.
(c) The gods are more powerful than man.
(d) The gods were not kind to mankind.

2. To punish men, Zeus sent them ___________.
(a) Disasters.
(b) Children.
(c) Plagues.
(d) Women.

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

4. ____________ was the god of light, archery, music, culture, healing, and prophecy.
(a) Athena.
(b) Artemis.
(c) Aphrodite.
(d) Apollo.

5. In one version of the story of the creation of man, the gods created different races of men based on _________.
(a) Food.
(b) Wood.
(c) Metals.
(d) Music.

Short Answer Questions

1. _________ was the king of the gods and ruler of Olympus.

2. ____________ was the other brother of Zeus and ruler of the underworld, where mortals went when they died.

3. The myths conveyed developing religious ideas concerning ____________.

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

5. ____________ was the goddess of love, who was said to have been born from the foam of the sea.

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