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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Modern scholarship usually dates The Odyssey to around the ______ century BC.
(a) 6th.
(b) 8th.
(c) 5th.
(d) 7th.

2. What did Jocasta and Oedipus do when they realized they were mother and son?
(a) Oedipus killed Jocasta and then killed himself.
(b) Jocasta killed herself, and Oedipus blinded himself before going into exile.
(c) Jocasta killed Oedipus and then killed herself.
(d) They both blinded themselves.

3. Agamemnon had sacrificed whom to Artemis in order to set sail for Troy?
(a) His own daughter.
(b) His neighbor.
(c) His wife.
(d) His niece.

4. The gods were furious and sent him to ______________, a section for punishment in the underworld.
(a) Tartarus.
(b) Tartar.
(c) Tarrantala.
(d) Titanium.

5. Pelops' sons Atreus and Thyestes quarreled over Thyestes' affair with whom?
(a) Their mother.
(b) Hera.
(c) Atreus' wife.
(d) Princess Hippodamia.

6. Pomona was a nymph of orchards who was loved by whom?
(a) Hermippus.
(b) Lycophron.
(c) Vertumnus.
(d) Xenocles.

7. Procne became a ______________ that sang mournfully for her dead son whom she now regretted killing.
(a) Robin.
(b) Cricket.
(c) Nightingale.
(d) Whippoorwhill.

8. Aeneas obeyed immediately, and the heartbroken Queen ______________.
(a) Poisoned him.
(b) Committed suicide.
(c) Fell asleep and never woke up.
(d) Poisoned herself.

9. Why was Dryope transformed into a tree?
(a) She accidentally harmed a nymph by picking flowers from a tree.
(b) She loved trees.
(c) She cut a tree down to build a fire.
(d) She carved her name into a tree.

10. Odysseus' adventures were told in the _________ poem The Odyssey.
(a) Idyll.
(b) Epigram.
(c) Epic.
(d) Short.

11. The story of Agamemnon shows how terrible acts could cause what?
(a) Punishment from the gods on the individual performing these terrible acts.
(b) Disease.
(c) Problems for an entire city or nation.
(d) A form religious pollution.

12. The society Aeneas founded would one day flourish into ___________.
(a) The great Roman Republic.
(b) The great nation of Greece.
(c) The great city of Athens.
(d) The great nation of Italy.

13. This chapter describes a series of myths concerning the earliest kings and queens of Athens before who became king?
(a) Philomela.
(b) Theseus.
(c) Perseus.
(d) Erectheus.

14. Aurora, goddess of ___________, loved a mortal named Tithonus.
(a) Dusk.
(b) The dawn.
(c) The evening.
(d) The night.

15. Callisto was loved by Zeus and hated by Hera. Hera turned her into a _________ and arranged for her son to kill it.
(a) Butterfly.
(b) Moose.
(c) Bear.
(d) Rabbit.

Short Answer Questions

1. This story is very different from the other myths in the book for ____________ reasons.

2. Amymone was pursued by a ________ but saved by Poseidon.

3. Important themes in the myths connected to the House of Thebes include the importance of proper respect for the gods, and the importance of ________,

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

5. Midas was a king rewarded by ______________ with any gift he chose.

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