Allusion Quiz

In Greek mythology, Achilles's mother dips him in a river that protects his body wherever it touches. His heel does not get wet, so it is the one part of his body left unprotected. During the Trojan War, an arrow hits Achilles in the heel and kills him.
What is the meaning of the allusion in the sentence below?

Red velvet cupcakes were Stacy's Achilles's heel when she was trying to eat more healthily.

• A source of strength
• A sole weakness

By allowing the baby not to finish eating before leaving the table, the mom opened Pandora’s box and soon was sitting alone at the table. 

• literature/mythology
• religious
• historical

I thought the video game I downloaded would be fun to play, but I accidentally installed a Trojan Horse.

• Biblical

• Mythological

• Popular Culture

• Historical

Identify the story that is alluded to below,

There's no promise of safety with these secondhand wings

But I'm willing to find out what impossible means.

A leap of faith.

Parody of an angel

Miles above the sea

I hear the voice of reason

Screaming up to me

"You flew too high, for now your too close to the sun

Soon your makeshift wings will come undone"

• Demeter

• Daedalus

• Pandora

• Judas

I went on an ______________ to India and saw many interesting places. 

• cereal
• odyssey
• typhoon
• fortune

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CCSS.L.4.4A

What is a Herculean task?

• Something you must do

• Something very difficult to do

• Something you don't feel like doing

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CCSS.L.4.4A

CCSS.RL.4.4

look of Medusa

• a. great courage

• b. a look that causes someone to freeze like a stone statue

• c. stressful situation

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CCSS.L.4.4A

CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

Posiedon

• a. Zeus's wife and queen of the greek gods

• b. Greek god of music

• c. he was the greek god of water

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

Zeus'; jealous wife/sister; almost succeeded in a coup with her siblings to bring down Zeus; goddess of women and marriage

• ICARUS
• HERA
• PERSEUS
• RHEA

Demi-god who went on a quest to kill Medusa, was given a pair of winged sandals by Athena, stole the Graeae sisters’ one eyeball for a hot minute as leverage to demand from them the location of the nymphs so he could get some sweet weapons. Beheaded Medusa and used her head as a weapon to save his mother from marrying the king.

• MACHIAVELLI
• ZEUS
• CRONUS
• PERSEUS