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Mythology: Chapters 15+16
Chapter 15+16 quiz...
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11/24/2008

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Why were the Gods upset with the Greeks right after the Trojan war?
Definition
The Greeks celebrated and forgot to mention that the Gods had helped them.
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T/F. Poseidon and Athena became mad at the Greeks and punished them on sea.
Definition
True
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Who was Cassandra?
Definition
A prophetress and daughter of Priam
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Apollo gave Cassandra the power to foretell the future.... she rejected his love... right after that Apollo made people she told a fortune to ___ _______ ___.
Definition
not believe her
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T/F. Cassandra predicted the Greeks were in the horse.
Definition
True
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Ajax did what to Cassandra even though she was holding a sacred image of Athena?
Definition
Ajax killed her.
Term
After the Greeks left, _________ came near to losing all of his ships, ________ was blown to Egypt, and ____ who killed Cassandra was drowned.
Definition

1.)Agamemnon

2.)Menelaus

3.)Ajax

Term
Ajax died because he did what?
Definition
He yelled at the top of his lungs that he was one the sea could never drown..... I guess he was wrong after that haha.
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How many years did it take for Odysseus to finally reach home?
Definition
20 years
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What was Odysseus' home called? What was his wife's name?
Definition

1.)Ithaca

2.)Penelope

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T/F. Telemachus was Odysseus' brother.
Definition
False, he was his son.
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People came from all over to marry Penelope since people assumed she was a widow. What were these people called?(Hint.... starts with an "s")
Definition
1.)They were called suitors
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T/F. The suitors ate all of Odysseus' food and killed his cattle and would not leave until Penelope married one of them.... They were also very rude and dirty people.
Definition
True.
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What did Penelope do to buy some time from the suitors in the beginning of this chapter?
Definition
She told them she wouldn't marry till she finished weaving a shroud for Odysseus' father Laertes.
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Penelope never intended to finish weaving her shroud so that she would never have to remarry... who told the suitors this?
Definition
One of Penelope's handmaidens
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T/F. After 10 years, the Gods had felt sorry for Odysseus.
Definition
True.
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Which God never felt sorry for Odysseus?
Definition
Poseidon
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Who occupied Odysseus at the time Athena was presenting the sad case of Odysseus to the Gods?(except Posedion, he was in Ethiopia)
Definition
Calypso
Term
____ sent _____ to tell Calypso to free ________ from her grasp and allow him to sail home.
Definition

1.)Zeus

2.)Hermes

3.)Odysseus

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T/F. Telemachus was a drunk, rude, and arrogant man. That is why Athena liked him.
Definition
False, Telemachus was a sober, discrete, young man.
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Athena appeared to Telemachus as a seafaring man and told him to search for his father. What 2 men did she(Athena) suggest he go to?
Definition
Nestor and Menelaus
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Odysseus trusted _____, who he trusted the most out of the Ithacans
Definition
Mentor
Term
______ appeared as Mentor and talked to Telemachus and went with him on a "journey"
Definition
Athena
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They found Nestor making a sacrifice to ________.

T/F. Nestor was of no help to Telemachus.

Definition

Poseidon.

True

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Menelaus was the husband of _____. Telemachus brought one of _______ sons to Sparta(where Menelaus' castle was)
Definition

1.)Helen

2.)Nestor's

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How would one get Proteus to talk?(this god would answer any questions if?)
Definition
He was captured.
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How did Menelaus capture Proteus?
Definition
By digging holes where he came up every day, and when he finally came and lay there, Menelaus and his men captured him.
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Why was capturing Proteus difficult?
Definition
He could change into anything at will.
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Besides telling Menelaus how to get off the Pharo island, what else did he tell Menelaus?
Definition
He told him that Odysseus was with Calypso.
Term
T/F. Hermes had a wand that could set Men's eyes on fire.
Definition
False, it made them fall asleep
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T/F. Calypso rescued Odysseus when he washed ashore.
Definition
True
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_______ and Odysseus built a ship to get off the island he was stuck on for 10 years about.
Definition
Calypso
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When Odysseus was on the sea,it was calm all the way until the 18th day. Why is that?
Definition
Poseidon returned from Ethiopia and let all the winds loose on him.
Term

1.)Which Goddess saved Odysseus from Poseidon's wrath?

 2.)What did she tell him to do?

3.)What did she give him?

Definition

1.)Ino

2.)Jump from the raft

3.)Her veil which protects him in the sea.

Term
Alcinous based decisions off of his _____.
Definition
wife
Term
After swimming for 2 days, Odysseus landed in?
Definition
Country owned by Phaecians
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T/F. Princess' often were expected to do house hold chores and such.
Definition
True
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Nausicaa found Odysseus naked while she was doing what?
Definition
cleaning clothes
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The Lotus Eaters' flowers did what to people who ate them?
Definition
made the people never want to return home.
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When Odysseus had the leather sack of winds from Aeolus, what did his men think it was before they opened it up?
Definition
They thought it was gold.
Term
Laestrygons were man-eaters aka ______.
Definition
cannibals
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Note: I am not really gonna waste questions going over Circe since that was from the video. You know, the witch that turned people into animals, then Hermes helps and Circe falls in love with Odysseus.
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How did Odysseus talk to Teiresias? What did Teiresias(a ghost) tell him?
Definition

1.)by sacrificing sheep blood near the underworld

2.)How to get home

Term

The Sirens sang and then what happend to most men who came to their island?

 

 

WHat did Odysseus' men do to protect from this? What did Odysseus' men do to protect him since he wanted to hear it?

Definition

1.)They were eaten

2.)They plugged their ears with candle wax

3.)tied him to the ship super tightly

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Why were Odysseus' men(and ship) struck with lightning?
Definition
Because they(not Odysseus) ate the sacred oxen
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Athena changed Odysseus into an old ______.
Definition
Beggar
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T/F.Odysseus had a dog and it died after he saw him when he returned.
Definition
True =///// =/// =/ =/ =/
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When Odysseus(beggar) went to talk to the suitors and beg for food, what did one of them do?
Definition
Slapped him to the ground
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What was on Odysseus' foot that a nurse recognized?
Definition
A scar from a boar that he got when he was a child.
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What test do the suitors have to go through to be Penelope's husband?
Definition
They have to use Odysseus' arrows and shoot through 12 rings.
Term

Once Eumaeus gave the arrows to Odysseus, did Odysseus pass the test?

 

What did he do after?

Definition

Yes

He killed all the suitors

Term
After the suitors were killed, ________ _______ and _________ were rejoiced together.
Definition

1.)Odysseus

2.)Telemachus

3.)Penelope

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Aeneas was the son of _____.
Definition
Venus
Term
Aeneas escaped Troy with his?
Definition
father and son
Term
In a dream Aeneas was told to go to _____(_____)
Definition
Hesperia(Italy)
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T/F. Aeneas and crew beat the harpies.
Definition
False, they had to flee from the harpies
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Who told Aeneas not to go through the middle of Sicily and Italy, and to avoid the Greeks?
Definition
Helenus, the husband of Andromache(not sure if i spelled, I am in a rush currently lol)
Term
Without any warning, Aeneas and crew landed on which cylops' island?
Definition
Polyphemus
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How did they escape Polyphemus?
Definition
A man on the island that was accidentally left their told them where they were and they left.
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Why was Juno(Hera) upset with Aeneas?
Definition
Because he was one day to conquer Carthage, Juno's favorite city.
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T/F. No one could detest what the Fates had said.
Definition
True
Term
Which God stopped Juno's storm? Who did this God and Juno go to for control of winds?
Definition

1.)Neptune(Poseidon)

2.)Aeolus

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Who founded Carthage and was forced to fall in love with Aeneas by Cupid?
Definition
Dido
Term
When Aeneas had came into Carthage, what did he see on the walls?
Definition
Paintings of the battle of Troy.
Term
Who did Jupiter send to Aeneas to tell him to get out of Carthage and search for his dream city?
Definition
Mercury(Hermes)
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Once Aeneas fled from Dido, what did she do?
Definition
She killed herself
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Who did Aeneas get help from to get to the Udnderworld?
Definition
the Sibyl
Term
What did Aeneas need to find before going to the underworld? Who helped him besides Sibyl?
Definition

1.)golden bough

2.)Venus(Aphrodite)

Term
Venus' 2 _____ showed Aeneas where the entrance to Underworld and where the golden bough was.
Definition
doves
Term
The ferryman of the underworld was?
Definition
Charon
Term
How did Aeneas get past Cerberus?
Definition
by giving it cake
Term
People who were at the Fields of Mourning were people who comitted ______.
Definition
Suicide
Term
T/F. Elysian fields is where the bad guys go.
Definition
False, good guys such as Aeneas' father
Term
After his father was done talking to him and told him how to conquer Italy, what did Aeneas have to do before he left the Underworld?
Definition
He had to drink from the river of forgetfullness
Term
Lavinia, Latinus' daughter, was to be married by a ________.
Definition
foreigner
Term
To start a war, Juno summoned Alecto, one of the?
Definition
Furies
Term
What 3 things did Alecto do to start the Latins and the Rutulians to fight the Trojans?
Definition

1.)Made the Queen of Latin not have her daughter marry Aeneus.

2.)Went and "aroused" Turnus to have him against the Trojans.

3.)Made Aeneas' son, Ascanius shoot a stag that was "sacred" to the Latin country

Term
King Latinus did what during the war?
Definition
Nothing, he hid up in his castle.
Term
Father Tiber appeared to Aeneas in a _____. He told him to visit Evander.
Definition
dream
Term
Aeneas got which people to ally with him? Why did they ally with him? Who came with Aeneas to help him with this?
Definition

1.)Etruscans

2.)They didn't like their king, who was on Turnus' side

3.)Pallas

Term

These two were on Aeneas' side, and they tried to sneak into the enemy cover and reach Aeneas. They were excellent killers by killing in silence. In the end, the king found them, killed one of them, then the other one killed the king, and then died.

Who are they?

Definition
Nisus and Euryalis
Term
T/F. Camilla was on Aeneas' side and was a female warrior who was very good with a bow and arrow.
Definition
False, She was on the other side,
Term
On the battlefields, Aeneas is known as a ______.
Definition
Prodigy
Term
Who killed Turnus?
Definition
Aeneas.
Term
Menzentius was also on the non Trojan side, who was he? O... he was killed also.
Definition
He was the king of the Etruscans, and he abused them badly
Term
In the end, Aeneas conquered all and started the Romans, who was his final wife?
Definition
Lavinia.
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