Quiz

1. Who of the following was the author of the Works and Days?
   a. Homer
   b. Ovid
   c. Hesiod
   d. Plutarch
   
2. From what union did Day and Aether come into being?
   a. Ge and Uranus
   b. Erebus and Night
   c. Erebus and Uranus
   d. Tartarus and Night
   
3. What author parodies myth in his comedy entitled Birds?
   a. Aristophanes
   b. Aeschylus
   c. Hesiod
   d. Homer
   
4. Which is not a name of the Cyclopes?
   a. Brontes
   b. Steropes
   c. Arges
   d. Briareus
   
5. In the orientalizing period of Greek art, what was the most popular mythological subject?
   a. the birth of Aphrodite
   b. the Gigantomachy
   c. the castration of Uranus
   d. the infancy of Zeus
   
6. Which of the following did not arise from Chaos?
   a. Tartarus
   b. Erebus
   c. Uranus
   d. Eros
   
7. The Greek term hieros gamos means:
   a. an epiphany of the god
   b. the birth from Chaos
   c. a yawning void
   d. a holy marriage
   
8. The Titans are the offspring of:
   a. Gaia and Eros
   b. Gaia and Uranus
   c. Gaia and Cronus
   d. Gaia alone
   
9. Greek mythology imagines the earth as a flat disc encircled by:
   a. Oceanus
   b. Chaos
   c. Erebus
   d. Uranus
   
10. Which of the following drove the chariot of the sun disastrously?
    a. Helius
    b. Hyperion
    c. Apollo
    d. Phaëthon
    
11. Selene, goddess of the moon, fell in love with the handsome shepherd:
    a. Tithonus
    b. Endymion
    c. Adonis
    d. Eros
    
12. Eos is the goddess of the:
    a. night
    b. rainbow
    c. dawn
    d. sun
    
13. Which lover of Eos was granted immortality, but not perpetual youth?
    a. Cephalus
    b. Tros
    c. Tithonus
    d. Cinyras
    
14. Aphrodite was born as a result of the castration of:
    a. Cronus
    b. Zeus
    c. Uranus
    d. Oceanus
    
15. Cronus devoured all his children except:
    a. Hera
    b. Hades
    c. Poseidon
    d. Zeus
    
16. The mother-earth goddess, Rhea, was the consort of:
    a. Cronus
    b. Zeus
    c. Uranus
    d. Tithonus
    
17. The Hecatonchires were children of:
    a. Zeus and Hera
    b. Uranus and Gaia/Ge
    c. Zeus and Metis
    d. Cronus and Rhea
    
18. Ge is:
    a. the consort of Helius
    b. a yawning void
    c. Earth
    d. the mother of Zeus
    
19. The father of Zeus is:
    a. Cronus
    b. Uranus
    c. Prometheus
    d. Poseidon
    
20. Pontus is:
    a. a mountain
    b. a region in the Underworld
    c. the sea
    d. the sky
    
21. Eros is the:
    a. son of Uranus
    b. god of love
    c. messenger god
    d. father of Cronus
    
22. The 6,000 children of Oceanus and Tethys are:
    a. trees
    b. mountains
    c. bodies of water
    d. winds
    
23. The Cyclopes are children of:
    a. Gaia and Pontus
    b. Chaos
    c. Zeus and Hera
    d. Gaia and Uranus
    
24. The Hecatonchires have 100:
    a. eyes
    b. legs
    c. feet
    d. hands
    
25. Erebus is:
    a. light
    b. day
    c. gloomy darkness
    d. the sun