English 12 A Final Exam 2022

The story of Pyramus and Thisbe was the inspiration for which work of Shakespeare?

• Taming of the shrew

• Romeo and Juliet

• Midsummer nights dream

• Othello

What does Pandora accidentally trap in the box?

• Hope

• Fear

• Faith

• Pleasure

What does Pandora unleash when she opens the box?

• All of the woes of mankind

• All of the happiness of mankind

• Nothing, the box is empty

• Prometheus' greatest enemy

Who eventually frees Prometheus?

• Hercules

• Zeus

• Apollo

• Thetis

How does Zeus punish Prometheus?

• Zeus' eagle eats his liver every day

• Zeus' steals his eyes

• Zeus has him push a boulder up a large hill every day

• Prometheus is not punished

How is Athena born?

• From Zeus's head

• From Hera

• From the sea

• From the stars

Which child comes back to overthrow Cronus?

• Zeus

• Hades

• Hera

• Demeter

What are the three purposes of myths?

• Teach a moral, Explain a natural event, To entertain

• To teach a moral, Teach young people how to fight, To entertain

• Explain a natural event, To entertain, To go to school

• They served no purpose at all

What, according to the Greeks, existed before everything else?

• Titans

• Gaea

• Eros

• Chaos

Before science, myths were used to

• explain the unexplainable

• entertain children

• scare people

• educate other countries