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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. This chapter describes a series of myths concerning the earliest kings and queens of Athens before who became king?
(a) Perseus.
(b) Theseus.
(c) Erectheus.
(d) Philomela.

2. The House of Thebes was in many ways as unlucky as the House of Atreus, but their troubles seemed ________.
(a) Much more deserved.
(b) Much worse.
(c) A lot less deserved.
(d) Not as bad.

3. This bad luck began with Tantalus, who served up his own son at a banquet for the gods, perhaps to do what?
(a) Confuse them.
(b) Poison them.
(c) Disgust them.
(d) Test or mock them.

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

5. Odysseus rescued the men before visiting the dead prophet ________________ in the underworld.
(a) Theocritus.
(b) Theodectes.
(c) Tyrtaeus.
(d) Tieresias.

Short Answer Questions

1. Achilles could not stand the slight to his honor that Agamemnon brought about by ______________.

2. Agamemnon had sacrificed whom to Artemis in order to set sail for Troy?

3. The inventor warned his son ______________.

4. Homeric hymns, written from the end of the ______________ century BC to the fifth or even fourth century BC, were written to honor various gods.

5. 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.

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