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WorksheetsHeracles, pp. 139-146
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 7mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
What objects did Eurystheus order Heracles to obtain from the garden of Hesperides?
a)
silver pomegranates
b)
golden apples
c)
poisonous arrows
d)
magical spears
2.
What shape-shifter showed Heracles the way to the garden of Hesperides?
a)
Nereus
b)
Zeus
c)
Achelous
d)
Apollo
3.
Who actually got the golden apples for Heracles?
a)
Nereus
b)
Ladon
c)
Prometheus
d)
Atlas
4.
Heracles freed ____________, who was chained to a rock and tormented by an eagle.
a)
Antaeus
b)
Nessus
c)
Admetus
d)
Prometheus
5.
This creature guarded the golden apples of Hesperides.
a)
Python
b)
Nereus
c)
Ladon
d)
Sphinx
6.
This deadly wrestler was the son of Gaea and had a hut made of skulls.
a)
Ladon
b)
Nereus
c)
Antaeus
d)
Admetus
7.
What did Eurystheus order Heracles to bring back (alive!) from the Underworld?
a)
Cerberus
b)
Persephone
c)
the Titans
d)
the Erinyes
8.
Who help Heracles get to the island of Geryon and to find the entrance to the Underworld?
a)
Hermes
b)
Apollo
c)
Nereus
d)
Helios
9.
_______________ made Heracles wear women's clothes and do all the household chores for 3 years.
a)
Deianira
b)
Antaeus
c)
Admetus
d)
Omphale
10.
If he could find someone to die in his place, _____________ did not have to die at his appointed time.
a)
Admetus
b)
Antaeus
c)
Alcestis
d)
Nessus
11.
Who died in the place of Ademtus?
a)
his friend Heracles
b)
his mother
c)
his wife Alcestis
d)
his loyal slave
12.
Heracles won a fight over a woman against this shape-shifting river god,
a)
Nereus
b)
Nessus
c)
Achelous
d)
Admetus
13.
Heracle's wife on Mt. Olympus
a)
Alcestis
b)
Hebe
c)
Deianira
d)
Omphale
14.
The snake-footed monsters were produced by Gaeas and defeated by Heracles & the Olympians.
a)
the giants
b)
the Titans
c)
the Erinyes
d)
Otus & Ephialtes
15.
This centaur tried to abduct Deianira, Heracles' new wife.
a)
Charon
b)
Chiron
c)
Nessus
d)
Philoctetes
16.
The poison from this monster forced Heracles to be burned on a funeral pyre.
a)
Cerberus
b)
the Nemean lion
c)
the Sphinx
d)
the Hydra
17.
He received the bow & arrows of Heracles.
a)
Philoctetes
b)
Apollo
c)
Athena
d)
Alcestis
18.
She (unknowingly) gave Heracles a tunic with poison.
a)
Deianira
b)
Alcestis
c)
Nessus
d)
Hebe
19.
_________ tried to abduct Heracles' wife Deianira as he helped her cross a swollen river.
a)
Nereus
b)
Nessus
c)
Atlas
d)
Philoctetes
20.
This son of Gaea was squeezed to death by Heracles.
a)
Admetus
b)
Nereus
c)
Antaeus
d)
Nessus
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