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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. According to the Greeks, in the beginning there was only __________.
(a) Light.
(b) Darkness.
(c) Chaos.
(d) God.

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 swallowed it.
(b) He poisoned it.
(c) He suffocated it.
(d) He buried it.

3. Orithyia was carried away against her will by whom?
(a) The god of the South Wind, Boreas.
(b) The god of the West Wind, Boreas.
(c) The god of the North Wind, Boreas.
(d) The god of the East Wind, Boreas.

4. To punish men, Zeus sent them ___________.
(a) Disasters.
(b) Plagues.
(c) Children.
(d) Women.

5. Odysseus alone survived and washed up on the shore of the island of ______________, where a sea-nymph who kept him captive for years.
(a) Caliope.
(b) Calypso.
(c) Caliente.
(d) Conga.

Short Answer Questions

1. Odysseus rescued the men before visiting the dead prophet ________________ in the underworld.

2. ____________ was the god of light, archery, music, culture, healing, and prophecy.

3. What turned crimson in honor of Pyramus and Thisbe's great love?

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

5. One of the earliest kings was _______________, who ruled at the time Demeter brought agriculture to earth.

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