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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Two. Cupid and Psyche, and Eight Brief Tales of Lovers.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

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

3. The myths conveyed developing religious ideas concerning ____________.
(a) Morality and justice.
(b) The Bible.
(c) God and heaven.
(d) Birth and death.

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

5. These gods were the children of the ____________, who were the children of heaven and earth.
(a) Godfather.
(b) Angels.
(c) Titans.
(d) Devils.

Short Answer Questions

1. How did the Greek gods act?

2. Apollo (also known as Apollo to the Romans) and _________ were the children of Zeus and Leto.

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

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

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

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