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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Minerva beat Arachne for her insolence and destroyed her work. What did Arachne do?
(a) She hanged herself.
(b) She went into exile.
(c) She stabbed herself with her lute.
(d) She jumped off the edge of a cliff.

2. Erysichthon was punished for cutting down a tree that was sacred to what goddess?
(a) Juno.
(b) Ceres.
(c) Venus.
(d) Athena.

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

4. Orithyia's two sons were heroes who accompanied ____________ on his voyage.
(a) Theseus.
(b) Aeneas.
(c) Jason.
(d) Odysseus.

5. Who composed the Odyssey?
(a) The Roman bard Plato.
(b) The Roman bard Homer.
(c) The Greek bard Homer.
(d) The Greek bard Plato.

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

7. Odysseus' journey home to Ithaca took him ______ years, and he faced many fierce monsters and dangerous people along the way.
(a) Five.
(b) Ten.
(c) Twenty.
(d) Fifteen.

8. 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) Rabbit.
(c) Moose.
(d) Bear.

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

10. This son was worshiped afterward by the Greeks and the Romans as what?
(a) A god of love.
(b) A god of forgiveness.
(c) A god of healing.
(d) A god of peace.

11. Procne was married to Tereus of Thrace, a son of Ares, who fell in love with ______________ and tricked her into a marriage before cutting out her tongue and locking her up.
(a) Theseus.
(b) Perseus.
(c) Philomela.
(d) Erectheus.

12. With whom did Agamemnon's wife have an affair?
(a) Her neighbor Aegisthus.
(b) Her cousin Aegisthus.
(c) Her brother-in-law Aegisthus.
(d) His cousin Aegisthus.

13. This story is very different from the other myths in the book for ____________ reasons.
(a) Several.
(b) Two.
(c) Three.
(d) Very few.

14. Proper _____________ was also considered very important in order to appease the spirits of the dead.
(a) Dress.
(b) Memorial services.
(c) Mourning.
(d) Prayer.

15. Odysseus rescued the men before visiting the dead prophet ________________ in the underworld.
(a) Theodectes.
(b) Theocritus.
(c) Tieresias.
(d) Tyrtaeus.

Short Answer Questions

1. The House of Thebes was in many ways as unlucky as the House of Atreus, but their troubles seemed ________.

2. Queen Amata, the king's wife, was not happy with this and neither was Turnus, the Rutulian king. Why was Turnus not happy about this?

3. Why did Oedipus leave home and travel to Thebes?

4. Why was Dryope transformed into a tree?

5. Orithyia was carried away against her will by whom?

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