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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Five. The Royal House of Athens.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What form did Tereus take?
(a) An ugly bear.
(b) An ugly alligator.
(c) An ugly praying mantis.
(d) An ugly bird with a huge beak.

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

4. Hercules was the son of Zeus and whom?
(a) A mortal woman.
(b) Hera.
(c) Athena.
(d) A nymph.

5. _________ was the king of the gods and ruler of Olympus.
(a) Hera/Juno.
(b) Zeus/Neptune.
(c) Poseidon/Neptune.
(d) Zeus/Jupiter.

Short Answer Questions

1. How was Achilles killed by Paris?

2. Odysseus' journey home to Ithaca took him ______ years, and he faced many fierce monsters and dangerous people along the way.

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

4. ________________ was the goddess of marriage and women.

5. This story is very different from the other myths in the book for ____________ reasons.

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