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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. Whose family survived Zeus' anger?
(a) Zeus'.
(b) Aristophanes'.
(c) Diogenes'.
(d) Prometheus'.

2. Odysseus' journey home to Ithaca took him ______ years, and he faced many fierce monsters and dangerous people along the way.
(a) Five.
(b) Ten.
(c) Fifteen.
(d) Twenty.

3. The Greeks saw perfection in the ideal beauty of __________, and they used it as a model for their statues of the gods. .
(a) Man.
(b) Animals.
(c) Nature.
(d) Youth.

4. One of the earliest kings was _______________, who ruled at the time Demeter brought agriculture to earth.
(a) Theseus.
(b) Philomela.
(c) Perseus.
(d) Erectheus.

5. It was a moral tale that taught proper behavior toward whom?
(a) One's family.
(b) The gods.
(c) Oneself.
(d) One's neighbors and the gods.

Short Answer Questions

1. There are _______ different versions of the story of the creation of man.

2. What happened when King Minos locked this inventor up in his own labyrinth?

3. Proper _____________ was also considered very important in order to appease the spirits of the dead.

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

5. Perseus was famous for killing ___________, a Gorgon whose gaze could turn a man to stone.

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