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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. 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) Elephantis.
(d) Pindar.

2. Zeus and the other gods took over when Zeus dethroned ____________ and seized his power.
(a) Cromagden.
(b) Cronus.
(c) Callinus.
(d) Crispus.

3. The Roman poet ________ wrote a lot about the myths, but presented them as silly stories that held no inner meaning.
(a) Oppian.
(b) Cercops.
(c) Ovid.
(d) Homer.

4. Apollo (also known as Apollo to the Romans) and _________ were the children of Zeus and Leto.
(a) Artemis/Aphrodite.
(b) Diana/Venus.
(c) Artemis/Diana.
(d) Aphrodite/Venus.

5. The main gods, or ______________, lived on Mount Olympus.
(a) Olympusians.
(b) Olympians.
(c) Athletes.
(d) Olymps.

Short Answer Questions

1. Homer, an ancient Greek _________, provided a lot of important insight in his epics, the Iliad and the Odyssey.

2. The Greeks created their gods in whose image?

3. How is the creation myth of the Greeks peculiar?

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

5. Whose family survived Zeus' anger?

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