Myths Quiz 1: Intro

Question 1

Mnemosyne

Answer 1

• Memory
• Titan
• Mother to 9 muses

Question 2

Helios

Answer 2

-Sun god

Question 3

Selene

Answer 3

-Moon Goddess

Question 4

Oceanus

Answer 4

• Titan

- Ocean

Question 5

Aphrodite

Answer 5

-Came from the castration of Father Sky

Question 6

According to the Greeks, what existed before all else?

Answer 6

-Chaos

Question 7

What two entities came from Chaos?

Answer 7

• Night

- Death (Erebus)

Question 8

What was born from Night and Death (Erebus)?

Answer 8

-Love

Question 9

What companion was born alongside Light?

Answer 9

-Day

Question 10

What was the name for Mother Sky?

Answer 10

-Gaea

Question 11

What was the name for Father Sky?

Answer 11

-Ouranos

Question 12

Which children of Earth and Sky had only one eye?

Answer 12

-Cyclops

Question 13

To which group of creatures did Cronus belong?

Answer 13

-Titans

Question 14

Whom did Cronus harm?

Answer 14

• Father Sky

- This castration created Aphrodite

Question 15

Which creatures were created from the blood of Cronus harming Father Sky?

Answer 15

• The Furies

- Giants

Question 16

What was Cronus’ Roman name?

Answer 16

-Saturn

Question 17

Who was Cronus’ sister-wife?

Answer 17

-Rhea (Ops)

Question 18

What horrible act did Cronus commit with his children?

Answer 18

-He ate them

Question 19

Why did Cronus eat his children?

Answer 19

-They would eventually dethrone him

Question 20

Who tricked Cronus by hiding their sixth baby and replacing him with a rock?

Answer 20

-Rhea

Question 21

Where did the rock Cronus swallowed end up?

Answer 21

-Delphi

Question 22

Which Titan sided with Zeus in the great battle?

Answer 22

-Prometheus

Question 23

Which Titan was condemned to hold up the world (heavens)?

Answer 23

-Atlas

Question 24

What still did not exist after the great battle?

Answer 24

-Humans

Question 25

Epimetheus' name meaning

Answer 25

-Afterthought

Question 26

Prometheus' name meaning

Answer 26

-Forethought

Question 27

What two gifts did Prometheus bestow upon man?

Answer 27

- Fire | - Standing upright

Question 28

What are the five metal races?

Answer 28

- Gold - Silver - Brass - Heroic - Iron

Question 29

Who was sent by Zeus as a punishment to mankind?

Answer 29

-Women (Pandora)

Question 30

What made Zeus angry?

Answer 30

1. Prometheus stole fire | 2. Humans get the best part of sacrifice (meat), gods get bones (worst part)

Question 31

What does Pandora mean?

Answer 31

-"gift of all"

Question 32

Why did Pandora open the box?

Answer 32

-She was curious

Question 33

What was in the box that Pandora opened?

Answer 33

- Plagues - Sorrow - Mischief

Question 34

What remained in the box Pandora opened?

Answer 34

-Hope

Question 35

Who was bound and tortured because he had a secret?

Answer 35

- Prometheus | - Liver picked at by a vulture each day, it would go back

Question 36

What was the secret that Prometheus knew?

Answer 36

-Wouldn't reveal the name of the woman Zeus would sleep with that would produce the child that would dethrone him

Question 37

Who eventually freed Prometheus?

Answer 37

-Hercules

Question 38

Who was saved from the destructive flood?

Answer 38

- Deucalion (Son of Prometheus) | - Pyrrha (Daughter of Epimetheus)

Question 39

Which race began out of the "bones" of Earth (stones from Mother Earth)?

Answer 39

-The stone race

Question 40

Who came from Mother Earth and Father Sky?

Answer 40

- Titans - Cyclops - Monsters

Question 41

Definition of Myths

Answer 41

- An imaginable, fantastical story - Filled with truth about the human condition - A story not true on the outside, but true on inside - Truths= relational (human relationships)

Question 42

Purpose of Mythology

Answer 42

1. Early science: How something came to be or why something happens 2. Sacred history: gods/goddesses, beliefs about creation and afterlife 3. Entertainment: Richest collection of stories next to Bible 4. Truth of Human Condition: Connect to and convey love, loss, war, suffering

Question 43

Characteristics of Mythology

Answer 43

- Greek Miracle - Anthropomorphic - Polytheistic - Nontranscendental - Mythical in time: time not specific or scientific

Question 44

Greek Miracle

Answer 44

- Man moves from fairly insignificant to the epitome of strength and beauty - World becomes place of light and loveliness instead of darkness and fear

Question 45

Anthropomorphic

Answer 45

- Gods/goddesses given human characteristics - All lived with gusto - Deities very flawed, not always admirable - Making possible God-like heroes, human-like gods

Question 46

Polytheistic

Answer 46

- Different deities have different turf - Comparable to Catholic tradition of patron saints - Makes for tension and conflict

Question 47

Nontranscendental

Answer 47

-Not otherworldly like other religions

Question 48

Mythology is full of motifs and themes

Answer 48

- "Don't mess with the gods" | - Myths connect with each other, as well as other "non-contact" cultures

Question 49

Dark Spots

Answer 49

- Beastly characters (sphynx, satyrs, centaurs) - Human sacrifice - Occasional cruelty of deities