Deck 15: Heracles

Question 1

Amphitryon killed his uncle _______ in a quarrel.

A) Perseus
B) Sthenelus
C) Alcaeus
D) Electryon

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Whose appearance did Zeus assume in order to sleep with Alcmena?

A) Sthenelus
B) Amphitryonx
C) Perseus
D) The leader of the Teleboan pirates

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Whose birth did Hera hasten in order to fulfill Zeus' declaration that one of his descendants would rule over all surrounding lands?

A) Eurystheus
B) Creon
C) Thespius
D) Busiris

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Heracles sleeps with all fifty daughters of _______, according to some versions, all in one night.

A) Oeneus
B) Telephus
C) Thespius
D) Eurystheus

Question 5

Where does Heracles go after killing Megara and their children?

A) Trachis
B) Dodona
C) Calydon
D) Delphi

Question 6

Which of the following are the categories used to describe the Labors, Deeds, and Side-Deeds of Heracles?

A) Parerga
B) Agônes
C) Athloi
D) Praxeis

Question 7

Where does Heracles get his lionskin?

A) From Zeus himself
B) From the Nemean Lion
C) From Theseus
D) From Apollo

Question 8

What does Iolaüs bring to the Heracles' battle with the Hydra that helps Heracles achieve victory?

A) Hermes' lyre
B) The cap of Hades
C) Fire brands
D) Poisoned arrows

Question 9

What event during his stay with Pholus results in Heracles defending himself from a Centaur attack?

A) Heracles gets drunk and kills Pholus
B) Heracles loudly mocks Chiron, the wisest of the Centaurs
C) Heracles opens a cask of wine belonging to all the Centaurs
D) Hera infuriates the rest of the Centaurs by claiming that Heracles tried to attack her

Question 10

How does Heracles clean out the stables of Augeas in one day?

A) By persuading his father, Zeus, to send a massive storm that washes away all the filth
B) By diverting a nearby river straight through the stables
C) By secretly bribing Augeas' ten sons to do the work
D) By using the Golden Shovel of Hephaestus

Question 11

What is so fearsome about the horses of Diomedes, the object of Heracles' eighth labor?

A) They are twelve feet tall
B) They can fly
C) The eat human flesh
D) Their saliva is poisonous

Question 12

What does Heracles do when he realizes that the house of Admetus is in mourning for the dead Alcestis?

A) He spends a year tracking down her killers in Crete
B) He wrestles Death and takes back Alcestisx
C) He sacks a nearby town and gives Admetus their queen to be his new wife
D) He marries one of Admetus' daughters

Question 13

Which of the following are true of Geryon?

A) His cattle are guarded by a hundred-headed serpent named Ladon
B) He has a demonic two-headed dog named Orthus
C) He has three bodies joined at the waist
D) He lives on the island of Erythia

Question 14

Whom does Heracles kill near the future site of Rome?

A) Evander
B) The Cercopes
C) Cacusx
D) Busiris

Question 15

During which labor does Heracles rescue Prometheus and require help from Atlas?

A) The Girdle of Hippolyta
B) The Apples of the Hesperides
C) The Cretan Bull
D) Cerberus

Question 16

Heracles wins an archery contest for _______, but her Eurytus refuses to give her up.

A) Iolê
B) Callirhoë
C) Deianira
D) Omphalê

Question 17

Who buys Heracles off the slave market?

A) Iolê
B) Callirhoë
C) Deianira
D) Omphalê

Question 18

Heracles wrestles _______, who also wanted Deianira.

A) Cacus
B) Acheloüs
C) Nessus
D) Laomedon

Question 19

On his funeral pyre, Heracles gives his bow to _______.

A) Peleus
B) Diomedes
C) Philoctetes
D) Paris

Question 20

The classical Greeks identified the legendary "return of the Heraclids" with the _______ that caused the collapse of the Mycenaean world about 1200 BC.

A) Hittites
B) Trojan exiles
C) Aeolian migration
D) Dorian invasion

Question 21

Heracles is represented here as sailing in a cup given to him by _______.

A) Zeus
B) Helius
C) Chiron
D) Eurystheus