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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Theseus became a good and just king of _________ and took part in many more adventures, such as the Calydonian Boar hunt and the fight between Centaurs and Lapiths.
(a) Sparta.
(b) Athens.
(c) Rome.
(d) Delphi.

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

3. The behavior of the Greek gods reflects the Greek attitude towards the beauty and perfection of _______.
(a) God.
(b) Animals.
(c) Man.
(d) Nature.

4. Pygmalion fell in love with the statue of a woman that he had created. Venus took pity on his aching heart and turned the statue into a real, living woman. Pygmalion married her and named her ____________.
(a) Gallus.
(b) Gnaeus.
(c) Gaetulicus.
(d) Galatea.

5. 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) Fed Cronus a stone wrapped in blankets instead of Zeus.
(d) Poisoned Cronus.

6. Theseus was honored by the Athenians as a protector of _____________ and a great king of their city.
(a) The sick.
(b) The defenseless.
(c) Children.
(d) The poor.

7. ________________ was the goddess of marriage and women.
(a) Poseidon/Neptune.
(b) Hades/Pluto.
(c) Zeus/Jupiter.
(d) Hera/Juno.

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

9. ____________ was the goddess of love, who was said to have been born from the foam of the sea.
(a) Aphrodite/Venus.
(b) Hera/Juno.
(c) Athena/Minerva.
(d) Artemis/Diana.

10. Zeus imprisoned the Titans and forced _______ to hold up the sky.
(a) Athena.
(b) Atlas.
(c) Artemis.
(d) Artemisia.

11. The Greeks saw perfection in the ideal beauty of __________, and they used it as a model for their statues of the gods. .
(a) Man.
(b) Youth.
(c) Nature.
(d) Animals.

12. The abduction of Helen began a _____ year war between Greece and Troy, with many heroes on both sides.
(a) Fifteen.
(b) Ten.
(c) Five.
(d) Twenty.

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

14. The Roman poet ________ wrote a lot about the myths, but presented them as silly stories that held no inner meaning.
(a) Cercops.
(b) Ovid.
(c) Oppian.
(d) Homer.

15. The main gods, or ______________, lived on Mount Olympus.
(a) Olymps.
(b) Olympians.
(c) Athletes.
(d) Olympusians.

Short Answer Questions

1. Persephone was enchanted by Orpheus' music, and Hades agreed to release Eurydice, on what condition?

2. There are _______ different versions of the story of the creation of man.

3. These gods were the children of the ____________, who were the children of heaven and earth.

4. The inventor warned his son ______________.

5. The Greeks finally won the war with __________.

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