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NLE Myth Review for Latin III
NLE Myth Review for Latin III
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A review of myth material for the National Latin Exam Level III.
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This harvest god, associated with a mythical golden age in Italy, has a festival in December.
Pan
Saturn
Bacchus
Vulcan
2
She was the fastest woman in the world, but she was tricked by three golden apples.
Callisto
Ariadne
Atalanta
Niobe
3
She was transformed into a laurel tree in order to avoid Apollo's unwanted advances.
Thisbe
Baucis
Daphne
Io
4
He and his wife were turned into intertwined trees at the moment of their death.
Philemon
Pyramus
Deucalion
Cadmus
5
All of the following are names for the god of the Underworld,
except...
Liber
Pluto
Orcus
Dis
6
He was the misogynist sculptor who fell in love with a statue of a woman that he had created.
Hyacinth
Ceyx
Endymion
Pygmalion
7
She was transformed into a bear and is the origin of the constellation Ursa Major.
Niobe
Callisto
Danae
Galatea
8
He mistakenly assumed his lover was eaten by a lion when he found a veil and a lion's tracks.
Deucalion
Philemon
Adonis
Pyramus
9
The world's first woman, she unleashed all evil upon mankind by opening her box.
Pandora
Harmonia
Semele
Pyrrha
10
She was the Roman goddess of witchcraft and magic who was worshiped at the crossroads.
Semele
Nemesis
Ceres
Hecate
11
After slaying the Nemean Lion as his first of twelve labors, he wore its skin as a trophy.
Bellerophon
Cadmus
Hercules
Jason
12
He flew upon the winged horse Pegasus in order to slay the three-headed fire breathing Chimera.
Cadmus
Perseus
Hercules
Bellerophon
13
Liber is another name for this Roman god of wine.
Mercury
Apollo
Bacchus
Pluto
14
She is the Roman goddess of the hearth and home. Her eternal fire is tended by six virgins.
Minerva
Juno
Ceres
Vesta
15
She was transformed into a spider after challenging Minerva to a weaving duel.
Arethusa
Arachne
Ariadne
Alcyone
16
The Roman god of beginnings and ends. When his temple doors were closed, Rome was at peace.
Orcus
Quirinus
Janus
Saturn
17
He, the son of the sun, lost control of his father's chariot of fiery horses and crashed.
Endymion
Midas
Phaethon
Aeolus
18
He was given the gift of the golden touch.
Deucalion
Cadmus
Phaethon
Midas
19
He made wings for himself and his son in order to escape from Crete.
Alpheus
Daedalus
Actaeon
Adonis
20
He was transformed into a stag after he saw Diana bathing. His own dogs tore him apart.
Actaeon
Alpheus
Ceyx
Adonis
21
He looked back at the shade of his beloved wife before they had both exited the Underworld.
Phaethon
Orpheus
Endymion
Aeolus
22
This has nothing to do with mythology.
Yes, it does.
Homer.
The internet is an odd place.
Indeed.
23
This young man was so full of himself that he pined away for his own reflection until he died.
Adonis
Hyacinth
Pygmalion
Narcissus
24
All of her children were slain by Apollo and Diana. She then turned into a weeping stone.
Semele
Niobe
Andromeda
Callisto
25
She saved Jason's life numerous times after he retrieved the Golden Fleece, but he left her.
Leda
Ariadne
Medea
Andromeda
26
She is the Roman goddess of agriculture. Her daughter was kidnapped by Pluto.
Vesta
Hecate
Ceres
Diana
27
These are the Roman household gods.
Manes
Parcae
Lares
Flamines
28
This god of war was the father of Romulus and Remus.
Mars
Orcus
Vulcan
Janus
29
These were angry ghosts who came back from the underworld to haunt the living.
Lares
Penates
Parentes
Lemures
30
She is the goddess of revenge.
Callisto
Nemesis
Pyrrha
Medusa
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She saved Theseus's life by giving him string in order to escape from the Labyrinth.
Andromeda
Ariadne
Medea
Leda