Final

Question 1

What is the name of the river of forgetfulness in the Underworld?

a. Phlegethon
b. Lethe
c. Cocytus
d. Styx

Answer 1

Lethe

Question 2

Who is Tisiphone?

a. one of the Maenads who tore Pentheus apart
b. The prophetess who guides Aeneas into the Underworld
c. Another name for Peresephone
d. the fury who guards the entrance to Tartarus

Answer 2

the fury who guards the entrance to Tartarus

Question 3

Who requested burial from Odysseus in the Underworld?

a. Palinurus
b. Achilles
c. Elpenor
d. Misenus

Answer 3

Elpenor

Question 4

Which is not a name for the king of the Underworld?

a. Hades
b. Pluto
c. Dis
d. Erebus

Answer 4

Erebus

Question 5

What is the name of the hateful river in the Underworld?

a. Lethe
b. Cocytus
c. Styx
d. Acheron

Answer 5

Styx

Question 6

Who was Orpheus’ bride?

a. Eurynome
b. Eurydice
c. Phaedra
d. Hymenaea

Answer 6

Eurydice

Question 7

With what region is Orpheus often associated?

a. Corsica
b. Thrace
c. Phrygia
d. Crete

Answer 7

Thrace

Question 8

What practice is Orpheus credited with originating among his people after his unsuccessful attempt to rescue his wife?

a. signing to the Iyre
b. homosexuality
c. funeral rites
d. celibate life

Answer 8

homosexuality

Question 9

Who is orpheus’ father, according to Ovid’s account?

a. Zeus
b. Dionysus
c. Hades
d. Apollo

Answer 9

Apollo

Question 10

How does Orpheus die?

a. he wastes away after his unsuccessful attempt to retrieve his wife.
b. in grief he live sin desolate places and is killed by a boar
c. he is torn apart by the women whos love he has spurned.
d. he is killed by Hades when he tried to retrieve his wife a second time.

Answer 10

he is torn apart by the women whos love he has spurned.

Question 11

Who was the father of Cadmus?

a. Agenor
b. Lycus
c. Zeus
d. Labdacus

Answer 11

Agenor

Question 12

Who became the wife of Cadmus?

a. Antiope
b. Boeotia
c. Harmonia
d. Ino

Answer 12

Harmonia

Question 13

Who is not the daughter of Cadmus?

a. Antiope
b. Boeotia
c. Harmonia
d. Ino

Answer 13

Antiope

Question 14

How were the walls of Thebes constructed?

a. Poseidon built them to repay his debt to Cadmus
b. Zeus called forth a rain of stones
c. The Spartoi built them at the behest of Cadmus
d. They were built with the aid of Amphion’s Iyre

Answer 14

They were built with the aid of Amphion’s Iyre

Question 15

Who did Oedipus believe were his real parents before he learned the truth?

a. Lycus and Dirce
b. Jocasta and Laius
c. Polybus and Merope
d. Laius and Merope

Answer 15

Polybus and Merope

Question 16

Who abused the privilege of eating with the gods by serving them his son?

a. Tantalus
b. Pelops
c. Agamemnon
d. Atreus

Answer 16

Tantalus

Question 17

Who was the only one that was tricked into taking part in the human feast offered to the gods?

a. Poseidon
b. Demeter
c. Hera
d. Athena

Answer 17

Demeter

Question 18

Who was bribed by Pelops to fix the chariot race?

a. Marsyas
b. Oenomaus
c. tantalus
d. Myrtilus

Answer 18

Myrtilus

Question 19

What would prove the identity of the rightful king of Mycenae in the generation after Pelops?

a. the true descendant of the previous king
b. the correct answer to a riddle
c. a scar
d. the possession of a golden-fleeced ram

Answer 19

the possession of a golden-fleeced ram

Question 20

Which is NOT a name for those underworld spirits that seek blood retribution?

a. Erinyes
b. Eumenides
c. Furies
d. Daemoni

Answer 20

Daemoni

Question 21

Who is the deformed soldier who speaks against Agamemnon and is soundly thrashed by Odysseus?

a. Hippolochus
b. Dolon
c. Glaucus
d. Thersites

Answer 21

Thersites

Question 22

Agamemnon refused to give back to Apollo’s priest his daughter, named:

a. Briseis
b. Helen
c. Chryseis
d. Andromache

Answer 22

Chryseis

Question 23

Who carried the bow of Heracles, without the aid of which Troy could not fall?

a. Patroclus
b. Achilles
c. Philoctetes
d. Telephus

Answer 23

Philoctetes

Question 24

Who escorted Priam to Achilles’ tent?

a. Hermes
b. Nestor
c. Ares
d. Cassandra

Answer 24

Hermes

Question 25

What is the final scene of the Iliad? a. Hector's death b. the battle for the city ensuing after the deception of the Trojan Horse c. Hector's funeral d. the Trojan Horse being dragged inside the city of Troy

Answer 25

Hector's funeral

Question 26

With whom does Odysseus spend seven of the ten years it takes him to return home? a. Circe b. Polyphemus c. Calypso d. Aeolus

Answer 26

Calypso

Question 27

What god aids Odysseus' escape from Circe with the aid of the Moly? a. Eidothea b. Hermes c. Athena d. Zeus

Answer 27

Hermes

Question 28

In what encounter does Odysseus lose all his remaining comrades? a. the encounter with Circe b. the encounter with the Laestrygonians c. the encounter with Polyphemus d. the encounter with the Cattle of the Sun

Answer 28

the encounter with the Cattle of the Sun

Question 29

Who is the leader of the suitors and the first one killed? a. Theoclymenus b. Amphinomus c. Antinous d. Automedon

Answer 29

Antinous

Question 30

Who is the person whom Odysseus is told to entreat first for help when he reaches the realm of Phaeacia? a. the Bard, Demodocus b. the Princess, Nausicaa c. the Queen of Phaeacia, Arete d. the King of Phaeacia, Alcinous

Answer 30

the Queen of Phaeacia, Arete

Question 31

On what island does the chest in which Danae and Perseus are confined wash up? a. Crete b. Lemnos c. Seriphos d. Cios

Answer 31

Seriphos

Question 32

What is the closest meaning for the name of Dictys? a. salvation b. perserver c. raft d. net

Answer 32

net

Question 33

What is the gift that Hermes provides Perseus? a. a bag b. a mirror-shield c. winged sandals d. a scimitar

Answer 33

a scimitar

Question 34

Who are the daughters of Phorcys whose name means the "aged ones"? a. the Hags of Seriphos b. the Stygian Nymphs c. the Gorgons d. the Graeae

Answer 34

the Graeae

Question 35

Who is the father of Danae and grandfather of Perseus? a. Proetus b. Acrisius c. Argos d. Poseidon

Answer 35

Acrisius

Question 36

Which of his tutors did Heracles kill? a. Autolycus b. Amphitryon c. Eurytus d. Linus

Answer 36

Linus

Question 37

Who was the first wife of Heracles, whom he killed in a fit of rage? a. Megara b. Deianira c. Iole d. Omphale

Answer 37

Megara

Question 38

After what labor does Heracles institute the Olympic Games? a. the Augean Stables b. the Nemean lion c. the Lernaean Hydra d. the Stymphalian Birds

Answer 38

the Augean Stables

Question 39

Which companion of Heracles is lost on the Argonaut expedition? a. Calais b. Orpheus c. Zetes d. Hylas

Answer 39

Hylas

Question 40

What playwright wrote a comedy about the events surrounding the conception of Heracles? a. Menander b. Aristophanes c. Terence d. Plautus

Answer 40

Aristophanes

Question 41

From whom does Erichthonius spring? a. Zeus and Pandrosos b. Zeus and Herse c. Cecrops and Athena d. Hephaestus and Athena

Answer 41

Hephaestus and Athena

Question 42

Who is the mother of Theseus? a. Aethra b. Orithyia c. Procne d. Megara

Answer 42

Aethra

Question 43

Theseus abandons Ariadne on what island? a. Naxos b. Crete c. Lemnos d. Samos

Answer 43

Naxos

Question 44

Who is the son of Minos for whose death Minos seeks vengeance from Athens? a. Androgeos b. Medus c. Melampus d. Hecalus

Answer 44

Androgeos

Question 45

Whose son does Theseus claim to be when Minos makes an attempt upon one of the Athenian maids on board ship? a. Triton b. Zeus c. Proteus d. Poseidon

Answer 45

Poseidon

Question 46

Which goddess disguises herself as an old woman and asks Jason to help her cross a stream? a. Artemis b. Hera c. Athena d. Aphrodite

Answer 46

Hera

Question 47

In what city does Euripides' Medea take place? a. Corinth b. Athens c. Miletus d. Iolcus

Answer 47

Corinth

Question 48

Who was the Boeotian king who took Nephele as his first wife? a. Cretheus b. Acastus c. Phrixus d. Athamas

Answer 48

Athamas

Question 49

Jason was put in the care of Chiron's mother. Who was she? a. Chalciope b. Ino c. Tyro d. Philyra

Answer 49

Philyra

Question 50

Who usurped the throne from Aeson and became king of Iolcus? a. Cretheus b. Neleus c. Aeolus d. Pelias

Answer 50

Pelias

Question 51

Who is the most important of the classical authors in the transmission of Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern legends? a. Apollodorus b. Hyginus c. Ovid d. Vergil

Answer 51

Ovid

Question 52

What work includes letters from mythological heroines to their absent lovers? a. Genealogiae b. Amores c. Heroides d. Metamorphoses

Answer 52

Heroides

Question 53

Who swam the Hellespont each night to visit his lover? a. Hero b. Leander c. Zephyrus d. Acontius

Answer 53

Leander

Question 54

Who was the Italian fertility goddess whose six-day spring festival included indecent mimes? a. Venus b. Cydippe c. Diana d. Flora

Answer 54

Flora

Question 55

Who was the Italian fertility goddess who was won over by Vertumnus? a. Ops b. Ceres c. Flora d. Pomona

Answer 55

Pomona

Question 56

Of the twelve principal Roman gods, which one is identical with a Greek counterpart? a. Vesta b. Diana c. Ceres d. Apollo

Answer 56

Apollo

Question 57

What god is typically named first in Roman formal prayers? a. Juno b. Iovis c. Janus d. Jupiter

Answer 57

Janus

Question 58

What kind of deity is Mars in his earliest form? a. god of battle b. god of merchants c. god of agriculture d. god of rivers

Answer 58

god of agriculture

Question 59

What is known as the "Capitoline triad?" a. Jupiter, Minerva, and Juno b. Jupiter, Minerva, and Vesta c. Jupiter, Minerva, and Ceres d. Jupiter, Juno, and Diana

Answer 59

Jupiter, Minerva, and Juno

Question 60

The term penus refers to: a. a river b. the earth c. a doorway d. a cupboard

Answer 60

a cupboard