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Metamorphoses
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Ovid
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Full Book Quiz
1. What animal does Jupiter turn Lycaon into as punishment for his impiety?
A bear
A lion
A wolf
A rat
2. What are the names of the sole survivors of the flood?
Adam and Eve
Lycaon and Philomela
Io and Inachus
Deucalion and Pyrrha
3. When she is in the form of a cow, how does Io communicate with her father, Inachus?
Through sign and nods
Through speech
By wagging her tail
By writing her name with her hoof
4. What is Callisto’s final transformed state?
A bear
A constellation
A lion
A pool of water
5. What guise does Jupiter assume to seduce Europa?
A handsome prince
Her old nurse
The goddess Diana
A bull
6. What does Cadmus bury to produce the first Thebans?
A serpent’s tooth
Magical seeds
An animal carcass
Nothing
7. Why is Actaeon punished?
Because he challenges Diana to a hunting contest
Because he disparages Diana’s beauty
Because the gods hate his family
Because he sees Diana’s nakedness
8. How does Pentheus die?
Tigers maul him.
A group of men tear him apart.
A golden-tipped spear pierces him.
His mother and aunt tear him apart in a bacchic frenzy.
9. Why do Pyramus and Thisbe decide to run away?
Their parents prohibit their love.
They need to get out of their small town.
Their city is being attacked by a foreign army.
They must escape the plague.
10. How does Perseus kill Phineus?
He pushes him off a cliff.
He decapitates him with his sword.
He turns him into stone using Medusa’s head.
He starves him.
11. Which Muse sings against the Pierid sister?
Minerva
Calliope
Bono
Polydectes
12. For whom does Ceres look?
Dis
Proserpina
Arethusa
Mercury
13. Which kinds of scenes dominate Arachne’s tapestry?
Serene love
The battle between the gods and giants
Gods punishing men for no good reason
Gods raping women
14. How does Tereus mutilate Philomela?
He severs her tongue.
He gouges out her eyes.
He cuts off her toes.
He cuts off her fingers.
15. What is Tereus’s last supper?
Chicken from a remote part of the world
The flesh of a deer that his men just killed in the hunt
The flesh of a bear that his men just killed in the hunt
The flesh of his own son
16. How does Procris die?
Her husband, Cephalus, accidentally kills her with a spear.
A serpent bites her as she walks in the woods.
A lion mauls her.
Lightning strikes her.
17. When Jupiter promised them anything, what did Baucis and Philemon ask for?
Immunity
To be priests of Jupiter and live and die together
To be transformed into trees
To be made into stars
18. Whom does Byblis love in an erotic sense?
Her father
Her mother
Her brother
Her sister
19. What god or goddess turns Iphis into a man?
Minerva
Jupiter
Isis
Juno
20. With whom does Cinyras sleep?
His maid
His daughter
Thetis
A servant
21. What transformation does Midas experience?
His feet are webbed.
His mouth seals shut.
He grows donkey’s ears.
He grows a lion’s tail.
22. Who brings the dead Ceyx back to his loving wife, Alcyone?
The waves
Jupiter
Morpheus
The personification of Sleep
23. What do Ajax and Ulysses vie for?
The spoils of war
Who gets to go home first
Recognition
The arms of Achilles
24. What does Circe turn Ulysses’ men into?
Pigs
Rats
Snakes
Centaurs
25. What does Pythagoras advise people to avoid eating?
Saturated fat
Pigs
Fruits
All flesh
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