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MIDTERM REVIEW
Hesiod, Homeric Hymns, Iliad, and Odyssey
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1
Question
What is the primordial being/state from which the first gods arose? (HESIOD)
Answer
Chaos
2
Question
Which god usurps his father by castrating him?(HESIOD)
Answer
Cronos (he castrates Uranus)
3
Question
What is the name of the name of the war between the Olympians and the gods that came before them? (HESIOD)
Answer
Titanomachy
4
Question
What is the name of Zeus's mother?(HESIOD)
Answer
Rhea
5
Question
What is the name of Zeus's wife who he swallows? (HESIOD)
Answer
Metis
6
Question
What is the name of the monstrous serpent born to challenge Zeus' reign, and who is its mother? (HESIOD)
Answer
The serpent is Typhon and the mother is Gaia
7
Question
Where does Zeus imprison the Titans after defeating them in the war? (HESIOD)
Answer
Tartarus
8
Question
What woman is created as a punishment for Prometheus' theft of fire? (HESIOD)
Answer
Pandora
9
Question
What is the only thing left in the jar after Pandora opens it? (HESIOD)
Answer
Hope
10
Question
Who is the first witness Demeter talks to about the abduction of Persephone? (HOMERIC HYMNS)
Answer
Hecate
11
Question
What god does Demeter go to next to get information? (HOMERIC HYMNS)
Answer
Helios
12
Question
What is the name of the king who hires Demeter as a nanny? (HOMERIC HYMNS)
Answer
King Keleos
13
Question
What is the name of the baby Demeter raises for king Keleos? (HOMERIC HYMNS)
Answer
Demophon
14
Question
Who does Zeus send to retrieve Persephone from the underworld?(HOMERIC HYMNS)
Answer
Hermes
15
Question
What festival does Demeter establish at the end of the hymn?(HOMERIC HYMNS)
Answer
Eleusinian Mysteries
16
Question
Who is Apollo's mother?(HOMERIC HYMNS)
Answer
Leto
17
Question
On what island is Apollo born? (HOMERIC HYMNS)
Answer
Delos
18
Question
Who is the nymph who deceives Apollo, hiding the existence of the she-dragon?(HOMERIC HYMNS)
Answer
Telphusa
19
Question
What is the Greek verb for rotting that the other name for Delphi comes from?(HOMERIC HYMNS)
Answer
"Putho"
20
Question
What animals form does Apollo take on when he goes to find his priests? (HOMERIC HYMNS)
Answer
Dolphin
21
Question
Where are the priests from? (HOMERIC HYMNS)
Answer
Crete
22
Question
What is the name of the Trojan priest of Apollo who tries to ransom his daughter at the beginning of Book 1? (ILLIAD)
Answer
Chryses
23
Question
What is the name of the war-prize girl whom Agamemnon takes from Achilles? (ILLIAD)
Answer
Briseis
24
Question
Who stops Achilles from killing Agamemnon after Agamemnon says he will take Briseis? (ILLIAD)
Answer
Athena
25
Question
Who is Achilles mother, and what does Achilles ask her to do in Book 1? (ILLIAD)
Answer
Thetis is the mom and he asks her to get Zeus to help the Trojans
26
Question
In book 3, what pair of heroes fight a duel over the return of Helen? (ILLIAD)
Answer
Paris and Menelaos
27
Question
Which goddess rescues Paris from being killed by Menelaos? (ILLIAD)
Answer
Aphrodite
28
Question
What is the name of the archer whom Athena persuades to break the truce by shooting Menelaus? (ILLIAD)
Answer
Pandaros
29
Question
Which two warriors exchange armor on the battlefield after recognizing that their families have ties of xenia? (ILLIAD)
Answer
Glaucus and Diomedes
30
Question
What are the names of Hector's wife and son? (ILLIAD)
Answer
Hector's wife is Andromache and his son is Astyanax