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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Three. The Great Heroes before the Trojan War - Perseus, Theseus, Hercules and Atalanta.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What did Medea do to the daughter of the king of Corinth?
(a) She hid her.
(b) She killed her.
(c) She saved her.
(d) She tortured her.

2. The Titan called Cronus fought his father and took his power. Fearing that his children would do the same when they grew up, what did he do to each newborn baby?
(a) He suffocated it.
(b) He swallowed it.
(c) He buried it.
(d) He poisoned it.

3. ____________ was the goddess of love, who was said to have been born from the foam of the sea.
(a) Aphrodite/Venus.
(b) Hera/Juno.
(c) Athena/Minerva.
(d) Artemis/Diana.

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

5. When Zeus was born, what did Cronus' wife Rhea do?
(a) Poisoned Cronus.
(b) Fed Zeus to her husband.
(c) Buried Zeus before his father could find him.
(d) Fed Cronus a stone wrapped in blankets instead of Zeus.

Short Answer Questions

1. When Alcyone's husband Ceyx was killed in ______________, the pitying gods sent her a dream to tell her the truth about what had happened to him.

2. Jason was the hero who set out to retrieve the Golden Fleece from whom?

3. Theseus was honored by the Athenians as a protector of _____________ and a great king of their city.

4. The myths conveyed developing religious ideas concerning ____________.

5. On Perseus' return, he flew over _____________ where the maiden Andromeda was being sacrificed to a sea-monster to appease the anger of the sea-god and his nymphs.

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