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- 1. Multiple Choice
Why do Heracles and Apollo wrestle
one another at Apollo’s oracle in Delphi?
Heracles has attempted to rape the Pythia.
Heracles has snatched the Pythia’s sacred tripod and is threatening to leave with it.
A drunken Heracles has thrown up all over the place
Heracles has raided the oracle’s treasury to help raise money for an army
- 2. Multiple Choice
Why does Theseus go to the underworld?
He is looking for Cerberus.
He wants to find Hades to ask him for permission to bring a soul back to the world of the living.
He wants to help his friend get Persephone to marry him.
He is being punished for kidnapping Helen.
- 3. Multiple Choice
Who builds the labyrinth that encloses the Minotaur?
Icarus
Theseus
Minos
Daedalus
- 4. Multiple Choice
How does Poseidon punish Minos?
He kills the sacred bull.
He kills Minos' wife Pasiphae.
He makes Pasiphae lust after the bull.
Minos will be punished forever in the underworld.
- 5. Multiple Choice
What is a parergon?
A plant used to make humans immortal.
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A title given to Theseus after he arrives in Athens.
A general term for a battle between gods and men.
- 6. Multiple Choice
Where did the Apples of the Hesperides come from?
Gaia's wedding gift to Zeus and Hera
The first thing that Gaia ever created from the soil.
Demeter's most precious possession.
The fruit that Persephone eats from the underworld.
- 7. Multiple Choice
Why is Poseidon upset with Minos?
Minos was supposed to sacrifice his second child, but he didn't.
Minos stole Poseidon's wife.
Minos refuses to sacrifice to Poseidon.
Minos does not sacrifice the bull that Poseidon sent from the sea.
- 8. Multiple Choice
How many labors does the Pythia tell Heracles he must complete?
10
12
100
15
- 9. Multiple Choice
What will happen to Heracles after he completes the Labors?
apotheosis
parergon
He will die and go to the Elusian fields.
Hermes will bring him to Olympus.
- 10. Multiple Choice
What happens to Ariadne?
She is left in the labyrinth to die.
She is left on an island by Theseus.
She marries Theseus in Athens.
She dies on the journey home.
- 11. Multiple Choice
How doe Daedalus and Icarus escape their prison on Crete?
They dig a tunnel.
They leave with Theseus and Ariadne.
They fly.
They never escape.
- 12. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is NOT one of Heracles' labors?
Cattle of Geryones
Cerberus
Killing Cheiron the Centaur
The Nemean Lion
- 13. Multiple Choice
What does Theseus bring to the king of Athens to prove he is his son?
Sandals and sword
Club of Heracles
A lock of his mother's hair
The heads of the bandits he kills along the way.
- 14. Multiple Choice
Which of the following is NOT one of Heracles' wives or lovers?
Pasiphae
Iole
Megara
Deianeira
- 15. Multiple Choice
Why does killing the Hydra not count as one of Heracles' required labors?
He couldn't kill the immortal head.
He had to get help to do it.
He was bitten during the fight.
He kept some of the poison blood for himself.
- 16. Multiple Choice
They does Aegeus leap to his death into the sea?
His wife tried to kill him.
He slept with his daughter.
He sees black sails on the ship returning from Crete.
He is ashamed Theseus had to get help from a Cretan princess.
- 17. Multiple Choice
The name "Amazons" likely comes from the Greek word meaning what?
"Daughters of bronze"
"Daughters of Ares"
"Without men"
"Breastless"
- 18. Multiple Choice
What advice does Heracles receive from Prometheus?
Get Atlas to help with the Apples labor.
Don't try to kill the Cretan Bull
Don't marry Megara.
Kill the Lernaian Hydra.
- 19. Multiple Choice
Why does Heracles become a domestic slave for the Queen of the Lydians?
He kills the sacred bull.
He kills Minos' wife Pasiphae.
He kills Iole's brother.
He tries to rape the Pythia.
- 20. Multiple Choice
What kills Heracles?
Deianaira stabs him when she finds out he is married to Iole.
He is poisoned by the blood on Nessus on a robe.
He is poisoned by the blood of Nessus in his wine.
He is poisoned by the blood of the Hydra.
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