Test: Homer and Greek Mythology

​Test: Homer and Greek Mythology

By Allison Bayles

Multiple Choice

When is it believed that Homer lived?

• c. 900 B.C.

• c. 700 B.C.

• c. 800 B.C.

• c. 600 B.C.

Multiple Choice

What was Homer's profession?

• He was a bard, a professional poet who recited his poems.

• He was a potter who painted stories on his artwork.

• He was a farmer who wrote stories to entertain his children.

• He was a seaman who told his tales to men at sea.

Multiple Choice

What were Homer's most famous stories?

• the Illusory and the Osseous

• the Iliad and the Odyssey

• the lliad and the Osseous

• the Illusory and the Odyssey

Multiple Choice

What physical problem did Homer have?

• He was lame

• He was a leper

• He was blind

• He was deaf

Multiple Choice

How did the Greeks explain the world around them during Homer?

• by Biblical manuscripts passed down to them

• By myths and legends of the gods

• by written records of their ancestors

• by science

Multiple Choice

Name three Greek gods/goddesses.

• Thetis, Hermes, Menelaus

• Zeus, Athena, Ares

• Athena, Helen, Aphrodite

• Zeus, Odysseus, Poseidon

Multiple Choice

Describe the similarities and differences between the Greek gods and man.

• The gods were more powerful and lived forever

• The gods did not eat and man did

• Men could live inside gods

• The gods always cared for others first

Multiple Choice

Review Question: What is the approximate date that Israel divided into Two Kingdoms?

• 1109 B.C.

• 931 B.C.

• 881 B.C.

• 1091 B.C.

Multiple Choice

Review Question: Choose the correct date for the event - Phoenician Civilization and the Alphabet

• 509 B.C.

• 1200 B.C. - 1000 B.C.

• 2200 B.C. - 1450 B.C.

• 1250 B.C.

Multiple Choice

Review Question: Choose the correct date for the event - Trojan War

• 753 B.C.

• 1250 B.C.

• 509 B.C.

• 064 A.D.

Multiple Choice

Review Question: Choose the correct date for the event - Mycenaan Culture

• 509 B.C.

• 2200 B.C. - 1450 B.C.

• 1450 B.C. - 1200 B.C.

• 753 B.C.

Assigned Reading

d'Aulares' Book of Greek Myths

wine. Zeus and Hestia gave Dionysus one of the twelve golden thrones. Along with the great gods, many minor gods lived on Olympus. The goddesses of destiny, or the Fates, were the most powerful. Nemesis, who was their sister, made sure that all good and evil on earth were repaid fairly. Two Titans, Prometheus and Epimetheus, were given the responsibility of creating men and beasts out of clay, since the first men and beasts were killed in the gods' first battles. Prometheus asked Zeus for fire to give to men, but Zeus refused to share the gods' fire with mortals. Prometheus decided to steal fire from Olympus and take it to mankind. Prometheus also helped men to trick Zeus. To punish the humans, Zeus sent them Pandora. Pandora was given a sealed jar and told not to open it but her curiosity caused her to open the jar. Immediately, all kinds of evils previously hidden from mankind emerged and turned mortals evil. They were so evil that Zeus decided to drown them in a flood. Deucalion, the son of Prometheus, was the one man on earth who did not turn evil. Prometheus knew that Zeus was planning a flood, so he encouraged Deucalion to build an ark and take his wife Pyrrha on board with him. After the flood, they entered a temple to worship. There, Zeus told them to throw rocks over their shoulders. From the rocks emerged a score of men and women.

Assignment: Read chapters 21-25 of d'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths