Mythology Test 2

Question 1

City of Troy is located in which modern day country

Answer 1

Turkey

Question 2

Who must Agamemnon sacrifice in order to get winds to sail for Troy?

Answer 2

Iphigenia

Question 3

Who is the God of Plagues?

Answer 3

Apollo

Question 4

Whose wedding is disrupted by apple throwing?

Answer 4

Thetis

Question 5

Who did Tyndareus (Helen’s legal dad) offend?

Answer 5

Aphrodite (so she cursed him)

Question 6

Which is not a word used as a general reference to the Greeks in the iliad?

Answer 6

Dardanians

Question 7

Who offered Paris to be ruler of Asia?

Answer 7

Hera

Question 8

Who is Aeneas’ mom?

Answer 8

Aphrodite (she wanted to make sure he’d survive the fall of Troy to take his descendants to Italy, who then founded Rome)

Question 9

Where was Nestor the king of?

Answer 9

King of Pylos

Question 10

The Troy of the iliad is

Answer 10

Troy VIIa (the one that falls)

Question 11

Who convinces the Greeks not to leave Troy after Agamemnon’s speech?

Answer 11

Nestor and Odysseus

Question 12

When a young girl, Helen of Troy is kidnapped by who?

Answer 12

Theseus

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Chryseïs

Question 14

Agamemnon’s seer at Aulis (his prophet’s name):

Answer 14

Calchas

Question 15

The Aristeia would be part of which interpretive mode:

Answer 15

Structuralism

Question 16

Anything with steps is:

Answer 16

Structuralism

Question 17

Amalgamation of different regions is called

Answer 17

Syncretism

Question 18

Which of the following is not true about the fights that take place among the Olympians?

Answer 18

Athena beats down Artemis

Question 19

Who DOES Athena beat in the fights among the Olympians?

Answer 19

Aphrodite (by punching her in the breast)

Question 20

Achilles kills her and then falls in love with her:

Answer 20

Penthesilea

Question 21

Who wrote the code of the streets?

Answer 21

Anderson

Question 22

Helen of Troy’s biological parents:

Answer 22

Zeus and Leda

Question 23

Briefly describe argument between Hector and Paris

Answer 23

Hector is angry with Paris because he (Paris) will not fight with the men who are fighting for him. Paris says he will fight once he has his armor.

Question 24

Briefly describe fight between Paris and Menelaus

Answer 24

Fighting over Helen - Menelaus’ wife. To establish peace between the Trojans and Achaeans.

Question 25

Aftermath of fight between Paris and Menelaus

Answer 25

Aphrodite saves Paris.

Question 26

Athena tricks a Trojan archer into shooting an arrow at:

Answer 26

Menelaus

Question 27

Helen's suitors swear an oath to aid whomever is chosen to marry her, whose idea was this?

Answer 27

Odysseus

Question 28

Which of the following Gods is not aligned with the Greeks?

Answer 28

Apollo

Question 29

Who is Achilles' tutor?

Answer 29

Chiron

Question 30

Step by step analysis of literary berserking:

Answer 30

Aristeia

Question 31

What proves the rightful king of Mycenae in the generation after Pelops?

Answer 31

The possession of a gold-fleece ram

Question 32

Hippodamia's chariot-racing father

Answer 32

Oenomaus

Question 33

For solving Tyndareus' problem of deadly suitors, who is promised as payment?

Answer 33

Penelope

Question 34

Which is Hera' bribe at the judgment of Paris?

Answer 34

Master of all of Asia

Question 35

Who adopts Patroclus?

Answer 35

Peleus

Question 36

Who is Aegisthus' mom?

Answer 36

Pelopia

Question 37

Who does Hector kill?

Answer 37

Patroclus

Question 38

Who kills Hector?

Answer 38

Achilles

Question 39

Athena appears as this person to Hector in order to convince him to stand and fight Achilles:

Answer 39

Deiphobus

Question 40

Who curses Pelops?

Answer 40

Myrtilus

Question 41

Film clip from this movie was most similar to the argument between Achilles and Agamemnon?

Answer 41

8 Mile

Question 42

Athena gets a person to shoot an arrow and break the truce after Paris and Menelaus' duel:

Answer 42

Pandarus

Question 43

Is NOT present during the judgment of Paris

Answer 43

Artemis

Question 44

____ is about to kill Achilles, but is stopped by ____

Answer 44

Xanthus, Hephaestus

Question 45

Why does Xanthus want to kill Achilles?

Answer 45

because he is polluting the river with bodies (the first environmental argument)

Question 46

Why does Hephaestus stop Xanthus from killing Achilles?

Answer 46

Hera sent him because she wants Troy to fall

Question 47

Hector's son, who will be thrown off a rampart to his death after Troy falls:

Answer 47

Astanyx

Question 48

Who rapes Pelopia?

Answer 48

Thyestes

Question 49

Who is a product of the rape of Pelopia?

Answer 49

Agathus

Question 50

Leda and the Swan (describing her rape) was written by:

Answer 50

Yeats

Question 51

What is the order of the Aristeia?