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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. Later Greek writers include ______________, a lyric poet whose poems contained references to mythology, and the tragic playwrights Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.
(a) Pindar.
(b) Elephantis.
(c) Ovid.
(d) Odysseus.

2. This chapter gives brief summaries of _______________ more myths.
(a) Forty-one.
(b) Twenty-one.
(c) Thirty-one.
(d) Eleven.

3. Aeneas visited the underworld briefly before sailing to a spot near the River __________ on the Italian coast.
(a) Tagliamento.
(b) Tronto.
(c) Tesino.
(d) Tiber.

4. When Zeus was born, what did Cronus' wife Rhea do?
(a) Buried Zeus before his father could find him.
(b) Fed Zeus to her husband.
(c) Poisoned Cronus.
(d) Fed Cronus a stone wrapped in blankets instead of Zeus.

5. In Norse mythology, Odin was the ______________ and king of the gods.
(a) Sky Father.
(b) Heavenly Father.
(c) Almighty Father.
(d) Earth Father.

Short Answer Questions

1. Whom did Atreus kill and serve for dinner?

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

3. According to the Greeks, in the beginning there was only __________.

4. The inventor warned his son ______________.

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

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