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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What happens to Theseus after the bull dance?
(a) He is hurt but lives.
(b) He is banished from bull dancing.
(c) He is killed.
(d) He runs away.

2. Where does Theseus go after killing the king?
(a) To practice bull dancing.
(b) To his lover's chambers.
(c) To meet with his kinsmen.
(d) Back to his own bed.

3. Who tells Theseus that the gods favor him?
(a) An old woman.
(b) Simo.
(c) His father.
(d) His mother.

4. What does Theseus and his kinsmen practice on the ship?
(a) Fighting.
(b) A dance.
(c) Singing.
(d) Speed drills.

5. Why did someone give the bull medicine to make him mad?
(a) This person wagered money on a death in the arena.
(b) This person wanted all of the bull dancers to die.
(c) This person wanted the bull dead.
(d) This person wanted Theseus dead.

6. What does Theseus learn about the king's son from the other bull dancers?
(a) That the man wants to save Theseus.
(b) That the man wants to kill Theseus.
(c) That the man is the King's son.
(d) That the man is not the King's real son.

7. What angered Poseidon?
(a) Theseus' father put Theseus' name in the drawing.
(b) Theseus dishonored him.
(c) Theseus' father kept Theseus' name out of the drawing.
(d) Theseus' father dishonored him.

8. What two things will end the bull dancing?
(a) The bull dies or the dancer decides to stop.
(b) The bull is wounded or the dancer is wounded.
(c) The bull is too tired to chase or the dancer dies by the bull.
(d) The bull dies or the dancer gets tired.

9. Why are Theseus and the bull dancers smuggling things?
(a) They are planning to take a stand against the king's son.
(b) They want to become wealthy.
(c) They are planning on escaping.
(d) They are planning on helping all of the bull dancers.

10. What do Theseus and the bull dancers smuggle and begin to hide?
(a) Weapons.
(b) Food.
(c) Gold.
(d) Armor.

11. What is Theseus offered at the dinner party?
(a) His freedom.
(b) Horse and chariot.
(c) Sword and shield.
(d) Gold and jewels.

12. What is Theseus and the other cranes considered to be?
(a) Seamen.
(b) Soldiers.
(c) Hunters.
(d) Barbarians.

13. What is one place that Theseus finds useful on his way to meet his lover?
(a) The gold treasury.
(b) The records room.
(c) The library.
(d) The ancient armory.

14. In what month are the bull dancers trained to leap and do cartwheels?
(a) Third month.
(b) Second month.
(c) Fourth month.
(d) First month.

15. During the bull dance, where do Theseus and another of the dancers get caught?
(a) In the bull's horns.
(b) In the bull's front legs.
(c) Underneath the bull.
(d) Cornered against the wall by the bull.

Short Answer Questions

1. How many months will the bull dancers have to train?

2. After three months of bull dancing, who calls Theseus to his home to dine?

3. Why is Theseus proclaimed the leader of the bull dancers in Crete?

4. Why does the king ask Theseus to take his life?

5. While training to become a bull dancer, what does Theseus beg Poseidon to make him?

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