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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Part Seven. The Mythology of the Norsemen - The Stories of Signy and of Sigurd, and The Norse Gods.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happened to Antigone when she ignored Creon's edict and buried her brother?
(a) She was praised for her love for her brother.
(b) She was punished by being buried alive, hanging herself in the tomb rather than facing death by starvation.
(c) She was send to the underworld to suffer.
(d) She was run through with a sword.

2. Endymion was a shepherd who was loved by the Moon goddess __________.
(a) Selene.
(b) Serenus.
(c) Sabinus.
(d) Severus.

3. In one version of the story of the creation of man, the gods created different races of men based on _________.
(a) Metals.
(b) Food.
(c) Wood.
(d) Music.

4. Why was Venus jealous of Psyche?
(a) She was young and beautiful.
(b) She was more wealthy.
(c) She was more powerful.
(d) She was Venus' younger sister.

5. The two sisters escaped, but Tereus pursued them. The gods turned them all into what?
(a) Reptiles.
(b) Mammals.
(c) Birds.
(d) Insects.

Short Answer Questions

1. This king had been told in a prophecy that his daughter Lavinia was destined to marry __________, and he believed this referred to Aeneas.

2. With whom did Agamemnon's wife have an affair?

3. What did Jocasta and Oedipus do when they realized they were mother and son?

4. Unlike the Greek gods, the Norse gods were fully capable of what?

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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