Ch10 Myths Of Fertility I Demeter And Test Bank + Answers

Chapter 10: Myths of Fertility I: Demeter and Related Myths

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 01

1. Persephonê is often simply called _______.

a. Korê

b. the Great Goddess

c. Tritogeneia

d. Nymphê

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 02

2. When a grieving Demeter becomes a nurse to the royal couple’s son, Demophon, she tries to make him immortal by doing what?

a. by making him drink her ichor

b. by dipping him into the river Styx

c. by giving him ambrosia and placing him in the fire at night

d. by feeding him the meat of a sacred goat

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 03

3. What does Persephone eat, which in her living in the Underworld for part of the year?

a. A pomegranate

b. Bread

c. An olive

d. A gyro

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 04

4. Who saw Persephonê’s abduction and informs Demeter about it?

a. Poseidon

b. Helius

c. Rhea

d. Zeus

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 05

5. Who are the king and queen of Eleusis who take in a disguised Demeter as nurse to their son Demophon?

a. Leander and Hero

b. Aristeas and Lydê

c. Phorkys and Ceto

d. Celeus and Metaneira

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 06

6. In Greece the wheat seed is place in the ground in _______.

a. summer

b. autumn

c. winter

d. spring

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 07

7. When a Greek girl died unmarried, she was said to be _______.

a. a mater dolorosa

b. Demeter’s daughter

c. Hades’ bride

d. Demeter’s sister

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 08

8. The word mystery comes from the Greek mystês, meaning “_______.”?

a. one who closes

b. herald

c. ambassador

d. one who seeks

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 09

9. Which of the following two families were in charge of the Eleusinian Mysteries?

a. The Lagids

b. The Eumolpids

c. The Kerykes

d. The Alcmaeonids

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 10

10. What is the name of the rectangular stone building that stood inside the Telesterion at Eleusis?

a. The Propylaea

b. The Erechtheion

c. The Encheiridion

d. The Anaktoron

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 11

11. Which of the following are aspects of the experience of the Eleusinian Mysteries?

a. It fostered a feeling of community among Greeks

b. It promised a happy afterlife

c. It was open only to all, including murderers

d. It ensured the growth of grain

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 12

12. Who is the Mesopotamian ruler of the underworld, and sister to Inanna?

a. Nudimmud

b. Ereshkigal

c. Shamkatum

d. Lugalbanda

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 13

13. What happens to Innana when the Annunaki gods condemn her to death?

a. She is transformed into a dead bat in a cage

b. She dissolves into the Ocean Below

c. She turns into a decayed side of meat and is hung on a stake

d. Her bones are added to the thrones of the Annunaki gods

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 14

14. Whom does Inanna select to take her place in the underworld?

a. Lugalbanda

b. Utu

c. Enki

d. Dumuzi

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 15

15. The story of Zeus making love to Hera on Mt. Ida in the Iliad may depend on the concept of the _______.

a. parthenos

b. parergon

c. stella maris

d. hieros gamos

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 16

16. In Christianity, the Virgin Mary’s blue dress, crescent moon, and title “star of the sea” were taken from the Roman form of the cult of ______.

a. Isis

b. Cybelê

c. Galatea

d. Ceres

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 17

17. Who plotted the downfall of Osiris by secretly measuring him, building a box to contain him, and then arranging to trap him in it at a banquet?

a. Horus

b. Isis

c. Typhoeus

d. Thoth

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 18

18. Which of the following are among the etiological features of the myth of Isis and Osiris?

a. Context for the Egyptians’ understanding of their pharaohs

b. Why there were so many temples to Osiris

c. Why two gods with the name of Horus were represented differently

d. The origin of the pyramids

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 19

19. Which of the following are among the aspects of Cybelê?

a. She was a goddess of mountains

b. She was always depicted in art as drinking wine

c. She was primarily a goddess of fertility

d. She was a mistress of wild nature

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 20

20. Which king arranged for Attis to marry his daughter, and walled off his town in order to keep ill-wishers away?

a. Priam

b. Midas

c. Cecrops

d. Agdestis

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 10 - Question 21

21.

Who are represented here?

a. Demeter and Zeus

b. Zeus and Hera

c. Celeus and Metaneira

d. Persephonê and Hades