Deck 4: The Rise of Zeus

Question 1

Cosmogony is, for Hesiod, the same as _______.

A) theogony
B) hamartia
C) endogamy
D) anthropophagy

Answer 1

A

Question 2

Which of the following means "sexual love" or "attraction," and is the source of motion that brings sexual beings together to produce offspring?

A) Erebus
B) Agathos
C) Eros
D) Tartarus

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which of the following are Earth's most important offspring?

A) Hecatonchires
B) Cyclopes
C) Titans
D) Erinyes

Answer 3

A,B,C

Question 4

Who are the parents of Zeus?

A) Theia and Oceanus
B) Cronus and Rhea
C) Gaea and Uranus
D) Iapetus and Clymene

Question 5

Which of the following are the clever smiths of the gods, and make Zeus's lightning?

A) Cyclopes
B) Hecatonchires
C) Erinyes
D) Titans

Question 6

Who is the father of the ill-fated Phaëthon?

A) Cronus
B) Helius
C) Zeus
D) Endymion

Question 7

Eos, the goddess of the dawn, had many lovers, but she loved _______ so much that she asked Zeus to make him immortal (while forgetting to ask that he stop ageing).

A) Briareus
B) Endymion
C) Tithonus
D) Phaëthon

Question 8

Which of the following were born from the drops of blood that fell from the severed genitals of Uranus?

A) Erinyes
B) Cyclopes
C) Titans
D) Giants

Question 9

The Greeks changed the sex of the _______ from male to female, added wings, and explained the name as meaning "strangler."

A) Sphinx
B) Gorgon
C) Chimera
D) Pegasus

Question 10

Which of the following is the many-headed hound who guards the gates of Hades' realm?

A) Chimera
B) Cerberus
C) Geryon
D) Sphinx

Question 11

The best-known Nereid was _______, the mother of Achilles.

A) Phoebê
B) Thetis
C) Mnemosynê
D) Iris

Question 12

The stupendous battle between the Titans and the Olympians is known as the _______.

A) War of the Powers
B) Gigantomachy
C) Theopolemos
D) Titanomachy

Question 13

What do the Hecatonchires eat and drink to help them regain their strength and fight alongside Zeus and the Olympians?

A) Omphalos and nectar
B) Nectar and ambrosia
C) Ambrosia and omphalos
D) Nectar and aphrodisiac

Question 14

Which of the following are part of Apollodorus' account of the battle between Zeus and Typhoeus?

A) One of Typhoeus' hands reached the western horizon, the other the eastern
B) The Olympian gods fled to Egypt and changed themselves to animals
C) Zeus and Typhoeus agree to fight on a mountaintop in order to spare both earth and sky any damage
D) Typhoeus' sliced out the sinews of Zeus' hands and feet

Question 15

Zeus finally buries Typhoeus beneath _______.

A) Tartarus
B) Mt. Etna in Sicily
C) Mt. Olympus
D) the future site of Sparta

Question 16

Who is born, fully formed and fully armed, from out of Zeus's head?

A) Athena
B) Apollo
C) Artemis
D) Ares

Question 17

Which of the following words derive their form from Typhoeus?

A) typhoon
B) typhoid
C) typhus
D) type

Question 18

Enuma Elish opens with which two primordial gods mingled together in an indeterminate mass?

A) Marduk
B) Tiamat
C) Apsu
D) Ea

Question 19

When Marduk returns home victorious over Tiamat, he delivers the _______ to Anu and presents his captives before the gods.

A) Tablet of Destiny
B) Fruit of Life
C) Primordial Snake
D) Ark of the Covenant

Question 20

Mesopotamian and Greek myths have which of the following elements in common?

A) Clever sons who are defeated by their fathers in an initial round of conflict
B) A storm-god triumphs and is made king
C) The overcoming of terrible monsters
D) A first generation of gods made up of primal pairs

Question 21

This sculpture group from the Great Altar at Pergamum depicts the Greek gods fighting against _______.

A) Gorgons
B) the Titans
C) Typhoeus
D) Giants