Chapter 8, Lesson 3 quiz

What type of writing has a moral that teaches a lesson about life?

• myth

• fable

• lyric poems

• constellation

What do myths try to explain?

• natural and historical events

• Aphrodite

• Trojan War

• lyric poems

Mythology is a body of stories about_____.

• the Trojan War

• lyric poets and the author

• the Iliad and the Odyssey

• gods and heroes that try to explain natural and historical events

What person is credited for creating fables?

• Zeus

• Aphrodite

• Aesop

• Homer

Who was the king of the gods?

• Homer

• Poseidon

• Zeus

• Cupid

Who was the famous woman poet?

• Sappho

• Homer

• Zeus

• Aphrodite

Who was Aphrodite?

• goddess of agriculture

• goddess of the sea

• goddess of poetry

• goddess of love

What do we call poems set to music?

• lyric poems

• ballads

• musical poems

• rap

Who wrote the Iliad and the Odyssey?

• Sappho

• Homer

• Zeus

• Troy

Which of Homer's poems was about the last years of the Trojan War?

• the Odyssey

• the afterworld

• the Trojan War

• the Iliad