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

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who is the most awful child of Earth and Heaven?
(a) Cronos.
(b) Star.
(c) Night.
(d) Zeus.

2. Who is the father of gods and men?
(a) Crius.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Hera.
(d) Lapetus

3. Who is the Titans creator?
(a) Heaven.
(b) Eros.
(c) Chaos.
(d) Earth.

4. Who gives birth to Heaven, Hills and Pontius?
(a) Night.
(b) Earth.
(c) Chaos.
(d) Moon.

5. Who slays Geryones?
(a) Hercules.
(b) Zeus.
(c) Hera.
(d) Athena.

6. In 'Theogony', which sons does Heaven hate?
(a) Zeus and Apollo.
(b) Brontes, Steroppes and Hera.
(c) Cottus, Briareos and Gyes.
(d) Phoebe, Tethys and Arges.

7. Who is the first of Ocean's children to help Zeus fight the Titans in 'Theogony'?
(a) Kindle.
(b) Styx.
(c) Pool.
(d) Foreigner.

8. What animal do Ceto and Phorcys give birth to?
(a) A snake.
(b) A lion.
(c) A fish.
(d) A dog.

9. In 'Theogony', who does Zeus honor above all the other Gods?
(a) Zeus.
(b) Apollo.
(c) Hecate.
(d) Styx.

10. Who rules over the sea?
(a) Triton.
(b) The mermaids.
(c) Zeus.
(d) Tricor.

11. According to Hesiod's poem 'Theogony', how does Cronus try to prevent Heaven and Earth's prophecy?
(a) He kills his children
(b) He does nothing.
(c) He murders Zeus.
(d) He swallows his children.

12. How does Heaven's son betray her in 'Theogony'?
(a) He shoots her.
(b) He hides Earth.
(c) He sells a piece of her to Zeus.
(d) He cuts off her members.

13. Who eats Prometheus' liver?
(a) An eagle.
(b) Hercules.
(c) A tiger.
(d) A bear.

14. What did the Muses give the speaker in 'Theogony'?
(a) A fluent pen.
(b) A world as a stage.
(c) A swift paint brush.
(d) A divine voice.

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

Short Answer Questions

1. Who do Ceto and Phrocys give birth to?

2. Who does the speaker praise in the beginning of 'Theogony' ?

3. What are the names of the Cyclopes?

4. Who is Zeus' first child?

5. Who is referred to as the old man in 'Theogony'?

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