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1. What animal does Jupiter turn Lycaon into as punishment for his impiety?

(A) A bear

(B) A lion

(D) A rat

2. What are the names of the sole survivors of the flood?

(A) Adam and Eve

(B) Lycaon and Philomela

(D) Deucalion and Pyrrha

3. When she is in the form of a cow, how does Io communicate with her father, Inachus?

(A) Through sign and nods

(B) Through speech

(D) By writing her name with her hoof

4. What is Callisto's final transformed state?

(A) A bear

(B) A constellation

(D) A pool of water

5. What guise does Jupiter assume to seduce Europa?

(A) A handsome prince

(B) Her old nurse

(D) A bull

6. What does Cadmus bury to produce the first Thebans?

(A) A serpent's tooth

(B) Magical seeds

(D) Nothing

7. Why is Actaeon punished?

(A) Because he challenges Diana to a hunting contest

(B) Because he disparages Diana's beauty

(D) Because he sees Diana's nakedness

8. How does Pentheus die?

(A) Tigers maul him.

(B) A group of men tear him apart.

(D) His mother and aunt tear him apart in a bacchic frenzy.

9. Why do Pyramus and Thisbe decide to run away?

(A) Their parents prohibit their love.

(B) They need to get out of their small town.

(D) They must escape the plague.

10. How does Perseus kill Phineus?

(A) He pushes him off a cliff.

(B) He decapitates him with his sword.

(D) He starves him.

11. Which Muse sings against the Pierid sister?

(A) Minerva

(B) Calliope

(D) Polydectes

12. For whom does Ceres look?

(A) Dis

(B) Proserpina

(D) Mercury

13. Which kinds of scenes dominate Arachne's tapestry?

(A) Serene love

(B) The battle between the gods and giants

(D) Gods raping women

14. How does Tereus mutilate Philomela?

(A) He severs her tongue.

(B) He gouges out her eyes.

(D) He cuts off her fingers.

15. What is Tereus's last supper?

(A) Chicken from a remote part of the world

(B) The flesh of a deer that his men just killed in the hunt

(D) The flesh of his own son

16. How does Procris die?

(A) Her husband, Cephalus, accidentally kills her with a spear.

(B) A serpent bites her as she walks in the woods.

(D) Lightning strikes her.

17. When Jupiter promised them anything, what did Baucis and Philemon ask for?

(A) Immunity

(B) To be priests of Jupiter and live and die together

(D) To be made into stars

18. Whom does Byblis love in an erotic sense?

(A) Her father

(B) Her mother

(D) Her sister

19. What god or goddess turns Iphis into a man?

(A) Minerva

(B) Jupiter

(D) Juno

20. With whom does Cinyras sleep?

(A) His maid

(B) His daughter

(D) A servant

21. What transformation does Midas experience?

(A) His feet are webbed.

(B) His mouth seals shut.

(D) He grows a lion's tail.

22. Who brings the dead Ceyx back to his loving wife, Alcyone?

(A) The waves

(B) Jupiter

(D) The personification of Sleep

23. What do Ajax and Ulysses vie for?

(A) The spoils of war

(B) Who gets to go home first

(D) The arms of Achilles

24. What does Circe turn Ulysses' men into?

(A) Pigs

(B) Rats

(D) Centaurs

25. What does Pythagoras advise people to avoid eating?

(A) Saturated fat

(B) Pigs

(D) All flesh

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