Mythology Mid Term Flashcards
(67 cards)
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Who brings the humans to life in the Yoruba creation story?
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Olorun
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What does Prometheus steal for the human beings that anger Zeus?
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Fire
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Who created the titans?
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Gaia and Uranus
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Who is a god in the Yoruba creation myth?
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Olorun
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Who is the mother of the Olympians?
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Rhea
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Who are the soldiers who sail with Jason?
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Argonauts
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Who ate his children out of paranoia?
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Cronus
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Who was the unlawful King of Athens?
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Pelias
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Who was the first entity to exist in Greek mythology?
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Gaia
10
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Who helped Jason on his quest to defeat her father?
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Medea
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Who is the God of thunder?
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Thor
12
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Who saved his siblings from their father?
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Zeus
13
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Who is the Norse deity who created humans?
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Odin
14
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Who split the Yin and the Yang to create heaven and earth?
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Pan Gu
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Who was Prometheus’s brother?
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Epimetheus
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Who was Yoruba creator figure?
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Obatala
17
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Who defied Zeus to protect the humans he created?
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Prometheus
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Who has to retrieve a golden fleece?
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Jason
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What are Jason’s tasks when retrieving the Golden Fleece?
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Fight Warriors
Defeat a dragon
Flow a field
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Why does Jason go after the Golden Fleece?
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To win back his throne
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What happens to Pan Gu’s body after he lets go of the heavens and the earth?
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He dies and becomes the earth
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How does Pan Gu create the heavens and the earth?
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Separates the yin and the yang
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How were people formed and given life in the Norse creation Myth?
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From trees
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How and shy does Medea help Jason?
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Creates a potion to protect him
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What makes a myth different than a legend or a fairy tale?
Myth is believed to be truths or like a history
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How dos the Prince react to the Red Death?
He locks himself and his friends away
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What is the Red Death?
A disease
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What do the rooms symbolize in Red Death?
The course of human life
The progression of the illness
Hours of the Party
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How are the guests at the party dressed?
Elaborate costumes
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What does clock in the 7th room symbolize?
Death and Time
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What does the Prince's name refer to in Masque of the Red Death?
Prosperity
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Who is the mysterious guest at the party?
The disease
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What theme is from the following quote:
"And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death . . . And the Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable domination over all."
No one can hide from death
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The Masque of the Red Death is an allegory for illness - - what is the allegory?
Represents a moral, a message or an idea
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What does the Prince's response to the Red Death reveal about his character?
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Why is nothing written on YGB's tombstone?
He had no hope of getting to heaven
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What does YGB witness in the woods?
A satanic ritual
His neighbors with the devil
A baptism
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Who does UGB meet in the woods?
The devil
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What is the significance of Young Goodman Brown and his wife Faith's name?
Foreshadows their loss of goodness/faith later in the text
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What symbol is associated with Faith in Young Goodman Brown?
Pink ribbon
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The old woman taught me my catechism! said the young man and these was a world of meaning in this simple comment - - What does this quote from Young Goodman Brown tell the reader?
Even the most religious seeming people are involved with the devil.
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Dearest hear, whispered she, softly and rather sadly, when her lips were close to his ear, pr'y thee, put off your journey until sunrise, and sleep in your own bed to-night. A lone woman is troubled with such dreams and such thoughts, that she's afraid of herself, sometimes. Pray, tarry with me this night, dear husband, of all nights in the year! What literary device is this quote?
foreshadowing
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There was a scream, drowned immediately in a louder murmur of voices, fading into far-off laughter, as the dark cloud swept away, leaving the clear and silent sky above Goodman Brown. But something fluttered lightly down through the air, and caught on the branch of a tree. The young man seized it, and beheld a pink ribbon My Faith is gone! cried he, after one stupefied moment.
What is the importance of the pink ribbon in this quote? What does YGB mean when he says My Faith is gone?
His wife's bow - - lost his fiath in God after learning his wife was in the woods
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How does Young Goodman Brown change after his night in the woods?
He can't interact with anyone anymore - he thinks they are all fake
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Lady Macbeth tells her husband to look like the innocent flower - but be the serpent under it. What theme from the play does this quote emphasize?
Deception
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Who was the Original Thane of Cawdor?
A traitor to Scotland
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Who does Duncan name the Prince of Cumberland?
Malcolm
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Why, in Macbeth's opinion is the murder of Duncan so wrong?
Macbeth was recently honored by Duncan and Duncan has a family to take care of
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How does Lady Macbeth convince Macbeth to commit the murder?
That he is NOT a man if he does not
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What is Hecate's plan for Macbeth?
Make him feel overconfident
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After Macbeth dies, who will be the new king?
Malcolm
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Why is Macbeth fearless in the final battle?
The witches told him that no man born of a woman could harm him
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What event sets Lady Macbeth over the edge with guilt?
Lady Macduff and her son's are murdered
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During his second visit with the witches, Macbeth is shown Banqo's ghost with what?
The images of future kings
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Who does Macduff go to for aid in over throwing Macbeth?
England
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What theme does this represent:
Out, out brief candle. Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player. That struts and frets his hour upon the stage. And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot full of sound and fury. Signifying nothing
Life is meaningless and false
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What does the following show us about his mental state before the murder of Duncan?
Is this a dagger I see before me? Or art thou but a dagger of the mind, a false creation proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?
He is feeling guilty over what he is about to do
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Who said - - Out damned spot out I say
Lady Macbeth
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Who said - - by the pricking of my thumbs something wicked this way comes
The witches
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Who said - - I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition which overleaps itself and falls on the other
Macbeth
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Who said - - And oftentimes to win us to our harm the instruments of darkness tell us truths win us with honest trifles to betray's in deepest consequence
Banquo
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Who said - - I have no words my voice is in my sword thou bloodier villain
Macduff
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How do Macbeth and Banquo react differently to the prophecies?
Banquo questions them
| Macbeth works to make them happen
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How is the prophesy of Birnam Woods moving to Dunsinane Hill fulfilled?
Soldiers used branches to cover themselves to look like the woods are moving
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List two example of foreshadowing in the play that give us clues about Macbeth's fate
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What is the role of ambition in the play. Give 2 examples to support your claim
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Be able to compare Macbeth our tragic hero to the hero's of mythology and the hero's journey chart. In what ways does Macbeth follow the path of the hero
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