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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Who is the town ruled by?
(a) Men.
(b) The elderly.
(c) The townspeople.
(d) Women.
2. What is the name of the man who kills Theseus' friend?
(a) Megara.
(b) Pylas.
(c) Nisos.
(d) Skiron.
3. Who does Theseus go to war against?
(a) The thieves and gangs in Isthmus.
(b) The thieves and gangs in Eleusis.
(c) The thieves and gangs in Megara.
(d) The thieves and gangs in Athens.
4. What is the name of the queen's brother?
(a) Nisos.
(b) Pylas.
(c) Aigeus.
(d) Xanthos.
5. How many men is Theseus bringing to help in his father's war?
(a) Five hundred men.
(b) Three thousand men.
(c) Five thousand men.
(d) A thousand men.
6. What does Theseus do to the man who kills his friend?
(a) He follows him, but the man gets away.
(b) He kills him.
(c) He wounds him badly but lets him leave.
(d) He does nothing.
7. Who is Theseus' mentor?
(a) Simo.
(b) Kannadis.
(c) Diokles.
(d) Pittheus.
8. How does Theseus make the people in the camp feel?
(a) Nervous.
(b) Angry.
(c) Envious.
(d) Safe.
9. What does Theseus hear the harper singing about?
(a) A city where potions can be found to heal the sick.
(b) A city that moved great rocks and the methods they used.
(c) A city where great riches can be found.
(d) A city that built great structures and the methods they used.
10. In the story that Theseus' grandfather tells him, what befalls the city?
(a) A flood.
(b) An earthquake.
(c) A drought.
(d) A plague.
11. Why does Aigeus command the king and the priestess to keep Theseus' identity hidden?
(a) To enable him to have more sons.
(b) To keep him safe.
(c) To keep him from overtaking the throne.
(d) To raise him as a peasant.
12. Why does Theseus' mother need to give herself to the first man that is sent by the gods?
(a) To prove her devotion to the gods.
(b) To atone for the neglect given to certain gods.
(c) To prove her humility.
(d) To atone for her past sins.
13. Who gives Theseus a chariot driver?
(a) Aigeus.
(b) Pylas.
(c) Xanthos.
(d) Persephone.
14. Why did King Minos' men take the smaller boys from Troizen?
(a) To work in the fields as laborers.
(b) To punish the people of Troizen.
(c) To train them to be soldiers.
(d) To be slaves for entertainment to run with the bulls.
15. What does Theseus and his men come upon at the end of the borders?
(a) The gangs and thieves have rallied themselves to a battlefield to fight.
(b) A deserted battlefield.
(c) The gangs and thieves have joined forces with another kingdom to fight.
(d) The gangs and thieves have come to surrender.
Short Answer Questions
1. How does Theseus' grandfather feel when he learns Theseus didn't go on the ship?
2. What is the name of the other boy who comes to serve Poseidon?
3. What does Theseus discover when reaching the palace?
4. Whom does Theseus send away on a boat?
5. Of what city is Theseus' mother the chief priestess?
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