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Introduction

1. How many songs are used to compose the Homeric Hymns?
(a) Fifty three.
(b) Forty three.
(c) Twenty three.
(d) Thirty three.

2. Which one of the following epics was composed by Homer?
(a) Works and Days.
(b) The Odyssey.
(c) Metamorpheses.
(d) Theogony.

3. In a tribute, which Greek historian attributes the "Hymn to Apollo" to Homer?
(a) Aethlius.
(b) Xenophon.
(c) Thucydides.
(d) Ephorus.

4. What meter are the hymns composed in?
(a) Tetrameter.
(b) Pentameter.
(c) Hexameter.
(d) Trimeter.

5. Who is the other major composer of early Greek poetry that is mentioned in the Introduction?
(a) Euripides.
(b) Hesiod.
(c) Antimachus.
(d) Thespis.

6. What is the length of the shortest hymn?
(a) Two lines.
(b) Three lines.
(c) Two paragraphs.
(d) Three paragraphs.

7. What is the length of the longest hymn?
(a) Twenty eight lines.
(b) Two hundred and eighty lines.
(c) Fifty eight lines.
(d) Five hundred and eighty lines.

8. According to the evidence presented in the Introduction, what are some of the hymns most likely a prelude for?
(a) A longer poem.
(b) Another book by a different author.
(c) Another book by Homer.
(d) A shorter poem.

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