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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Works and Days.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who lives in a cave under a rock in 'Theogony'?
(a) Echidna.
(b) Sparta.
(c) Achilles.
(d) Apollo.

2. How close is the land of goodness?
(a) A lifetime away.
(b) Far away.
(c) Close.
(d) 20 miles.

3. What, in 'Works and Days', can man tell the difference between?
(a) Right and wrong.
(b) Hades and heaven.
(c) Gods and mortals.
(d) Left and right.

4. Who kills Chimaera?
(a) Pegasus and Bellerophone.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Hercules.
(d) Permethus.

5. What does the author not want the subject of 'Works and Days' to fall prey to?
(a) Strife.
(b) Greed.
(c) Envy.
(d) Hate.

Short Answer Questions

1. Who should give people wealth according to Hesiod's poem 'Works and Days'?

2. Who does Justice tell Zeus about?

3. In 'Theogony', what does Medusa suffer from?

4. Who is the Titans creator?

5. What, according to 'Works and Days', are the men in the silver generation like?

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