The Existing Immortals In Greek World
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Quiz pertaining about greek mythology.
- 1.How does Psyche betray Cupid?
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A) Cheating on him with another god
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B) Stealing his magic bow and arrows
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C) Telling her sisters who he is
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D) Seeing what he looked like
- 2.What is the name of Daedalus’s son?
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A) Theseus
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B) Minos
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C) Perseus
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D) Icarus
- 3.
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A) Democracy
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B) The Labyrinth
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C) A way to raise the dead
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D) The constellations
- 4.The myths served many functions for the Greeks. Which of the following purposes did they not serve?
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A) Literature, functioning as entertainment and pure fantasy
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B) Science, explaining the mechanics of the physical world
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C) Prophecy, showing how the world will end
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D) Religion, explaining the role of gods and morality in everyday life
- 5.For what is Perseus most famous?
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A) Killing the Minotaur
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B) Killing Medusa
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C) Killing the Sphinx
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D) Killing the Hydra
- 6.What famous couple does the story of Pyramus and Thisbe most closely resemble?
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A) Anthony and Cleopatra
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B) Pygmalion and Galatea
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C) Romeo and Juliet
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D) Napoleon and Josephine
- 7.What is the name of the second best Greek hero who lost out to Odysseus?
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A)Achilles
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B)Agamemnon
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C)Ajax
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D)Atreus
- 8.How does Odysseus escape Polyphemus’s cave?
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A) A cap of invisibility and winged sandals
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B) Wine, a very sharp stick, and lots of rams
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C) A hollow wooden horse
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D) A winged horse and a magic spear
- 9.In what practice do the flower myths of Hyacinth and Adonis probably have their roots?
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A) Human sacrifice
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B) Homosexuality
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C) Adultery
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D) Cannibalism
- 10.Without whose help would Jason not have gotten the Golden Fleece?
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A) Hercules’
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B) Perseus’s
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C) Medea’s
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D) Teiresias’s
- 11.In Greek mythology, who created woman?
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A)Epimetheus
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B)Hephaestus
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C)Prometheus
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D)Zeus
- 12.Which category best fits Prometheus?
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A)God
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B)Hero
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C)Hundred-Handed
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D)Titan
- 13.After the Trojan War, which Greek was killed by his wife?
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A)Agamemnon, killed by Clytemnestra
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B)Menelaus, killed by Helen
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C)Nestor, killed by Chloris
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D)Odysseus, killed by Penelope
- 14.
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A) Poisoning his robe
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B) Accidentally hitting him with a discus
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C) Forgetting to change his ship’s sail
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D) Angering King Minos
- 15.Why did the Trojans take the gigantic wooden horse within the city’s walls?
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A) If they did not, they would offend Aphrodite.
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B) The Greeks expected them to leave it outside the gates, which would offend Athena.
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C) They were desperate for firewood after years of siege.
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D) Zeus himself had given it to them.
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