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1
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What is the name of the river of forgetfulness in the Underworld?

a. Phlegethon
b. Lethe
c. Cocytus
d. Styx

A

Lethe

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Who is Tisiphone?

a. one of the Maenads who tore Pentheus apart
b. The prophetess who guides Aeneas into the Underworld
c. Another name for Peresephone
d. the fury who guards the entrance to Tartarus

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the fury who guards the entrance to Tartarus

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Who requested burial from Odysseus in the Underworld?

a. Palinurus
b. Achilles
c. Elpenor
d. Misenus

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Elpenor

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Which is not a name for the king of the Underworld?

a. Hades
b. Pluto
c. Dis
d. Erebus

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Erebus

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What is the name of the hateful river in the Underworld?

a. Lethe
b. Cocytus
c. Styx
d. Acheron

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Styx

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Who was Orpheus’ bride?

a. Eurynome
b. Eurydice
c. Phaedra
d. Hymenaea

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Eurydice

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With what region is Orpheus often associated?

a. Corsica
b. Thrace
c. Phrygia
d. Crete

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Thrace

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What practice is Orpheus credited with originating among his people after his unsuccessful attempt to rescue his wife?

a. signing to the Iyre
b. homosexuality
c. funeral rites
d. celibate life

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homosexuality

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Who is orpheus’ father, according to Ovid’s account?

a. Zeus
b. Dionysus
c. Hades
d. Apollo

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Apollo

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How does Orpheus die?

a. he wastes away after his unsuccessful attempt to retrieve his wife.
b. in grief he live sin desolate places and is killed by a boar
c. he is torn apart by the women whos love he has spurned.
d. he is killed by Hades when he tried to retrieve his wife a second time.

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he is torn apart by the women whos love he has spurned.

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Who was the father of Cadmus?

a. Agenor
b. Lycus
c. Zeus
d. Labdacus

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Agenor

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Who became the wife of Cadmus?

a. Antiope
b. Boeotia
c. Harmonia
d. Ino

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Harmonia

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Who is not the daughter of Cadmus?

a. Antiope
b. Boeotia
c. Harmonia
d. Ino

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Antiope

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How were the walls of Thebes constructed?

a. Poseidon built them to repay his debt to Cadmus
b. Zeus called forth a rain of stones
c. The Spartoi built them at the behest of Cadmus
d. They were built with the aid of Amphion’s Iyre

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They were built with the aid of Amphion’s Iyre

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Who did Oedipus believe were his real parents before he learned the truth?

a. Lycus and Dirce
b. Jocasta and Laius
c. Polybus and Merope
d. Laius and Merope

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Polybus and Merope

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Who abused the privilege of eating with the gods by serving them his son?

a. Tantalus
b. Pelops
c. Agamemnon
d. Atreus

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Tantalus

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Who was the only one that was tricked into taking part in the human feast offered to the gods?

a. Poseidon
b. Demeter
c. Hera
d. Athena

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Demeter

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Who was bribed by Pelops to fix the chariot race?

a. Marsyas
b. Oenomaus
c. tantalus
d. Myrtilus

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Myrtilus

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What would prove the identity of the rightful king of Mycenae in the generation after Pelops?

a. the true descendant of the previous king
b. the correct answer to a riddle
c. a scar
d. the possession of a golden-fleeced ram

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the possession of a golden-fleeced ram

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Which is NOT a name for those underworld spirits that seek blood retribution?

a. Erinyes
b. Eumenides
c. Furies
d. Daemoni

A

Daemoni

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Who is the deformed soldier who speaks against Agamemnon and is soundly thrashed by Odysseus?

a. Hippolochus
b. Dolon
c. Glaucus
d. Thersites

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Thersites

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Agamemnon refused to give back to Apollo’s priest his daughter, named:

a. Briseis
b. Helen
c. Chryseis
d. Andromache

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Chryseis

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Who carried the bow of Heracles, without the aid of which Troy could not fall?

a. Patroclus
b. Achilles
c. Philoctetes
d. Telephus

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Philoctetes

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Who escorted Priam to Achilles’ tent?

a. Hermes
b. Nestor
c. Ares
d. Cassandra

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Hermes

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What is the final scene of the Iliad?

a. Hector’s death
b. the battle for the city ensuing after the deception of the Trojan Horse
c. Hector’s funeral
d. the Trojan Horse being dragged inside the city of Troy

A

Hector’s funeral

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With whom does Odysseus spend seven of the ten years it takes him to return home?

a. Circe
b. Polyphemus
c. Calypso
d. Aeolus

A

Calypso

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What god aids Odysseus’ escape from Circe with the aid of the Moly?

a. Eidothea
b. Hermes
c. Athena
d. Zeus

A

Hermes

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Q

In what encounter does Odysseus lose all his remaining comrades?

a. the encounter with Circe
b. the encounter with the Laestrygonians
c. the encounter with Polyphemus
d. the encounter with the Cattle of the Sun

A

the encounter with the Cattle of the Sun

29
Q

Who is the leader of the suitors and the first one killed?

a. Theoclymenus
b. Amphinomus
c. Antinous
d. Automedon

A

Antinous

30
Q

Who is the person whom Odysseus is told to entreat first for help when he reaches the realm of Phaeacia?

a. the Bard, Demodocus
b. the Princess, Nausicaa
c. the Queen of Phaeacia, Arete
d. the King of Phaeacia, Alcinous

A

the Queen of Phaeacia, Arete

31
Q

On what island does the chest in which Danae and Perseus are confined wash up?

a. Crete
b. Lemnos
c. Seriphos
d. Cios

A

Seriphos

32
Q

What is the closest meaning for the name of Dictys?

a. salvation
b. perserver
c. raft
d. net

A

net

33
Q

What is the gift that Hermes provides Perseus?

a. a bag
b. a mirror-shield
c. winged sandals
d. a scimitar

A

a scimitar

34
Q

Who are the daughters of Phorcys whose name means the “aged ones”?

a. the Hags of Seriphos
b. the Stygian Nymphs
c. the Gorgons
d. the Graeae

A

the Graeae

35
Q

Who is the father of Danae and grandfather of Perseus?

a. Proetus
b. Acrisius
c. Argos
d. Poseidon

A

Acrisius

36
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Which of his tutors did Heracles kill?

a. Autolycus
b. Amphitryon
c. Eurytus
d. Linus

A

Linus

37
Q

Who was the first wife of Heracles, whom he killed in a fit of rage?

a. Megara
b. Deianira
c. Iole
d. Omphale

A

Megara

38
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After what labor does Heracles institute the Olympic Games?

a. the Augean Stables
b. the Nemean lion
c. the Lernaean Hydra
d. the Stymphalian Birds

A

the Augean Stables

39
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Which companion of Heracles is lost on the Argonaut expedition?

a. Calais
b. Orpheus
c. Zetes
d. Hylas

A

Hylas

40
Q

What playwright wrote a comedy about the events surrounding the conception of Heracles?

a. Menander
b. Aristophanes
c. Terence
d. Plautus

A

Aristophanes

41
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From whom does Erichthonius spring?

a. Zeus and Pandrosos
b. Zeus and Herse
c. Cecrops and Athena
d. Hephaestus and Athena

A

Hephaestus and Athena

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Who is the mother of Theseus?

a. Aethra
b. Orithyia
c. Procne
d. Megara

A

Aethra

43
Q

Theseus abandons Ariadne on what island?

a. Naxos
b. Crete
c. Lemnos
d. Samos

A

Naxos

44
Q

Who is the son of Minos for whose death Minos seeks vengeance from Athens?

a. Androgeos
b. Medus
c. Melampus
d. Hecalus

A

Androgeos

45
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Whose son does Theseus claim to be when Minos makes an attempt upon one of the Athenian maids on board ship?

a. Triton
b. Zeus
c. Proteus
d. Poseidon

A

Poseidon

46
Q

Which goddess disguises herself as an old woman and asks Jason to help her cross a stream?

a. Artemis
b. Hera
c. Athena
d. Aphrodite

A

Hera

47
Q

In what city does Euripides’ Medea take place?

a. Corinth
b. Athens
c. Miletus
d. Iolcus

A

Corinth

48
Q

Who was the Boeotian king who took Nephele as his first wife?

a. Cretheus
b. Acastus
c. Phrixus
d. Athamas

A

Athamas

49
Q

Jason was put in the care of Chiron’s mother. Who was she?

a. Chalciope
b. Ino
c. Tyro
d. Philyra

A

Philyra

50
Q

Who usurped the throne from Aeson and became king of Iolcus?

a. Cretheus
b. Neleus
c. Aeolus
d. Pelias

A

Pelias

51
Q

Who is the most important of the classical authors in the transmission of Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern legends?

a. Apollodorus
b. Hyginus
c. Ovid
d. Vergil

A

Ovid

52
Q

What work includes letters from mythological heroines to their absent lovers?

a. Genealogiae
b. Amores
c. Heroides
d. Metamorphoses

A

Heroides

53
Q

Who swam the Hellespont each night to visit his lover?

a. Hero
b. Leander
c. Zephyrus
d. Acontius

A

Leander

54
Q

Who was the Italian fertility goddess whose six-day spring festival included indecent mimes?

a. Venus
b. Cydippe
c. Diana
d. Flora

A

Flora

55
Q

Who was the Italian fertility goddess who was won over by Vertumnus?

a. Ops
b. Ceres
c. Flora
d. Pomona

A

Pomona

56
Q

Of the twelve principal Roman gods, which one is identical with a Greek counterpart?

a. Vesta
b. Diana
c. Ceres
d. Apollo

A

Apollo

57
Q

What god is typically named first in Roman formal prayers?

a. Juno
b. Iovis
c. Janus
d. Jupiter

A

Janus

58
Q

What kind of deity is Mars in his earliest form?

a. god of battle
b. god of merchants
c. god of agriculture
d. god of rivers

A

god of agriculture

59
Q

What is known as the “Capitoline triad?”

a. Jupiter, Minerva, and Juno
b. Jupiter, Minerva, and Vesta
c. Jupiter, Minerva, and Ceres
d. Jupiter, Juno, and Diana

A

Jupiter, Minerva, and Juno

60
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The term penus refers to:

a. a river
b. the earth
c. a doorway
d. a cupboard

A

a cupboard

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