Chapter 1&3 - Mythology

What did the ancient Greeks think was at the beginning of thing?

• They thought Cosmos, or a mix of everything was at the beginning.
• They thought it was water, the gift of life.
• They thought it was eternity.
• They thought it was Chaos, or formless confusion at the beginning.

What did love create?

• Night and the stars
• Erebus
• Light and Day
• Earth

Which of the following does not describe Cronus?

• He is a giant.
• He wounded his father Heaven, because his mother Earth asked him to.
• He became Lord of the universe and ruled with his sister, Rhea.
• Cronus ate five of his six children because he knew on day one of them would dethrone him.

What did Prometheus give men to protect them?

• language
• reason
• love
• fire

Which of the following does NOT describe Pandora?

• Zeus intended her to be beautiful, but an evil to man.
• She was the first woman and she was lovely.
• Her name means "full of Evil and Sorrow."
• Zeus created her to punish mankind for tricking him into accepting the fat and bones of sacrificed animals.

How did Zeus punish Prometheus?

• He sent him to a small island. He could only stand up or crouch down because it was so small.
• Prometheus has to stand in a place between night and day and hold the world on his back forever.
• Prometheus was bound to a rock. Every day an eagle would come down and eat his liver.
• Prometheus was forced to push a boulder up a mountain every day. Every day once he got close to the top, it would roll back down.

The first 'race' of men created by the Greek Gods:

• Gold
• Diamond
• Bronze
• Iron

Which of the following is NOT a type of folk literature?

• myths
• fairy tales
• sonnets
• fables

Myths which tell how the world and human beings came to be.

• creation myth
• origin myth
• monster myth
• hero myth

Which character from creation myths has 'stood throughout all the centuries, from Greek days to our own, as that of the great rebel against injustice...'

• Chiron
• Zeus
• Cronus
• Prometheus