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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) Athena/Minerva.
(b) Aphrodite/Venus.
(c) Hera/Juno.
(d) Artemis/Diana.

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

3. The heroes of the Trojan War, also called __________ heroes, were slightly different from the older mythological heroes such as Hercules, Perseus and Theseus.
(a) Homeric.
(b) Trajan.
(c) Spartan.
(d) Corinthian.

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

5. When Odysseus blinded the Cyclops, he angered whom?
(a) The monster's cousin, Poseidon.
(b) The monster's brother, Poseidon.
(c) The monster's uncle, Poseidon.
(d) The monster's father, Poseidon.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why did visiting the underworld mark Aeneas as a very special hero?

3. Orithyia's two sons were heroes who accompanied ____________ on his voyage.

4. Atalanta was raised by ____________ and became a great huntress.

5. How is the creation myth of the Greeks peculiar?

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