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1. Who was Hermes' father?
Apollo
Mercury
Pan
Zeus

2. What does the psychopompous do?
Analyzes dreams
Guides souls
Rows souls across the Styx
Sends distrubing dreams

3. Who created fire -- or at least how to kindle it?
Atlas
Hermes
Prometheus
Zeus

4. Who made the first lyre?
Apollo
Dionysus
Hermes
Pan

5. Between whom did Hermes deliberately stir up trouble?
Aphrodite, Athena, and Hera
Atreus and Thyestes
Odysseus and the suitors
Zeus and Prometheus

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