Greek Mythology Review for Test

Question 1

What mistake did Icarus make?

Accepted Answer

He flew too close to the sun

Question 2

The most beautiful woman ever with "a face that launched a thousand ships"

Accepted Answer

Helen

Question 3

Who is the smart, sly trickster who came up with the idea for the Trojan horse?

Accepted Answer

Odysseus

Question 4

Venus/Aphrodite was jealous of this mortal woman whose beauty enticed Cupid himself

Accepted Answer

Psyche

Question 5

Who killed Achilles the (nearly) invincible?

Accepted Answer

Paris

Question 6

What is the symbol of Zeus?

Accepted Answer

Lightning Bolt

Question 7

Where did the Greek gods supposedly live ?

Accepted Answer

Mount Olympus

Question 8

Priam&#x27;s bravest son; he slew Achilles&#x27; companion Patroclus when Patroclus wore Achilles&#x27; armour

Accepted Answer

Hector

Question 9

What maiden was turned into a cow by Zeus to try to avoid Hera&#x27;s wrath when he wanted to seduce her?

Accepted Answer

Io

Question 10

Mythology is . . .

Accepted Answer

Timeless! It is still relevant today

Question 11

Athena, Goddess of wisdom and war, had a most interesting origin story, which was:

Accepted Answer

She sprang, fully formed and wearing armor, from Zeus' head

Question 12

The name of the beast King Minos kept in the Labyrinth, who would eat Athenian children

Accepted Answer

The Minotaur

Question 13

Name one of the characters from the myth that is similar to Romeo and Juliet

Accepted Answer

Pyramus, Thisbe

Question 14

The brothers Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon rule over these realms, respectively

Accepted Answer

Earth, the Underworld, and the Seas

Question 15

Who was the grandfather of Perseus who tried to run from fate?

Accepted Answer

Acrisius

Question 16

Who was the nymph who fell in love with Narcissus?

Accepted Answer

Echo

Question 17

Baucis and Philemon were two poor peasants who wished to always be together and were turned into

Accepted Answer

trees that grew together

Question 18

This poet and musician persuaded Hades to permit his wife to return to him from the dead

Accepted Answer

Orpheus

Question 19

What god is known for making beautiful music as well as being a god of the sun?

Accepted Answer

Apollo

Question 20

Daphne begged her father to allow her to never marry. Name the god who pursued her AND identify her fate.

Accepted Answer

Apollo, she became a tree

Question 21

Who was the most beautiful youth--so beautiful he fell in love with himself?

Accepted Answer

Narcissus

Question 22

This Goddess, Persephone's mother, presides over the harvest, fertility, and sacred law

Accepted Answer

Demeter

Question 23

Which god/goddess has the power to cause earthquakes?

Accepted Answer

Posideon

Question 24

Which god/goddess has the power to tell the future?

Accepted Answer

Apollo

Question 25

Who was the son of the sun god who drove the sun god's chariot to his doom?

Accepted Answer

Phaethon

Question 26

Which goddess is said to have been created from sea foam?

Accepted Answer

Aphrodite

Question 27

Who/what is Medusa? Choose the best answer.

Accepted Answer

All of these

Question 28

Who is the maiden warrior who married because she lost a footrace when she was distracted by golden apples?

Accepted Answer

Atalanta

Question 29

Zeus&#x27; sister, she was the Goddess of hearth, family, and domestic life

Accepted Answer

Hestia

Question 30

What two famous epic poems were written by Homer?

Accepted Answer

The Iliad and the Odyssey

Question 31

This goddess, kidnapped by Hades, did this to doom her to return each year for three or six months to the Underworld

Accepted Answer

Ate four seeds of a pomegranate

Question 32

This widely worshipped God of Wine was mostly a kind and generous deity.

Accepted Answer

Dionysus

Question 33

Name the Greek who refused to fight through most of the Trojan War because his "prize" had teen taken from him

Accepted Answer

Achilles

Question 34

Who is the father in the Trojan War who begs his son's killer to give back his son's body?

Accepted Answer

Priam

Question 35

This is the reason Hercules needed to perform the 12 labors

Accepted Answer

He killed his own children while under a spell from Hera

Question 36

Who is the Greek goddesses of wisdom, among other things?

Accepted Answer

Athena

Question 37

Who is the sculptor who scorns all women and creates a statue of the ideal woman who later comes to life?

Accepted Answer

Pygmalion

Question 38

This Goddess is the patron of marriage and childbirth

Accepted Answer

Hera

Question 39

Who is the Greek hero who rode Pegasus?

Accepted Answer

Bellerophon

Question 40

Who did Hades kidnap and take to the underworld and make her his queen?

Accepted Answer

Persephone

Question 41

Which of the following is/are true of Theseus?

Accepted Answer

All of these

Question 42

Two peasants who teach us Greek hospitality when they share what little they have with gods disguised as poor travelers

Accepted Answer

Baucis and Philemon

Question 43

Name the hero who voluntarily entered the Labyrinth and defeated the Minotaur?

Accepted Answer

Theseus

Question 44

Name the Greek hero who stood by Hercules when everyone else abandoned him

Accepted Answer

Theseus

Question 45

Name the goddess of the hunt

Accepted Answer

Artemis

Question 46

Name the maiden whom Zeus seduces by turning himself into a beautiful bull and persuading her to ride him

Accepted Answer

Europa

Question 47

What mistake did Orpheus make when he led his beloved out of the underworld?

Accepted Answer

He looked back too soon

Question 48

This demi-god hero slew Medusa with some help from Athena, Hermes, and the Nymphs of the North

Accepted Answer

Perseus

Question 49

This Goddess, angered by her husband's infidelities, often punished other victims

Accepted Answer

Hera

Question 50

Who causes the changing of the seasons out of sorrow for missing her daughter?

Accepted Answer

Demeter

Question 51

How are you going to do on your upcoming test?

Accepted Answer

I am going to rock it!

Question 52

What hero was tasked with 12 labors?

Accepted Answer

Heracles

Question 53

Which of these was NOT one of the 12 labors of Hercules?

Accepted Answer

Kill the sea monster Cetus

Question 54

Who came up with the monomyth theory that the hero's journey follows the same basic pattern in stories around the world?

Accepted Answer

Joseph Campbell

Question 55

What Greek hero died in the Trojan war after getting shot by an arrow in the heel?

Accepted Answer

Achilles

Question 56

Which of the following was NOT a participant in the Trojan war?

Accepted Answer

Perseus

Greek Mythology Review for Test

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Greek Mythology Review for Test

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