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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Book Four: Homeward Bound.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Aietes bury in the furrows that he plows with the bronze-hoofed bulls?
(a) Grain-seed.
(b) Zeus' broken lightning bolts.
(c) Tears of Hera.
(d) Teeth.

2. From what goddess do the Amazon women descend from?
(a) Ares.
(b) Derceto.
(c) Eos.
(d) Circe.

3. Who gave Akastos the cloak that he is wearing upon the Argo?
(a) His wife.
(b) Zeus.
(c) His sister.
(d) His mother.

4. To whose sons does Lykos build a shine to on the Acherousian headlands?
(a) Hercales.
(b) The sons of Tyndareos.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Jason and the Argonauts.

5. On the island of Aithalia, what objects do the Argonauts use to wipe their sweat?
(a) Tea leaves.
(b) Grave markers.
(c) Pebbles.
(d) Dove feathers.

Short Answer Questions

1. What does Phineus tell the Argonauts to avoid as they proceed to Bithynians?

2. When singing of the lineage of heroes, who does the narrator state inspires his song?

3. On what coast does Jason travel to to meet the Argo?

4. As darkness brought on the first night at Bebrykian, what sounds kept many from sleeping?

5. What crime did Paraibious's father commit so that all of his children would be punished?

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