Ch9 Myths Of The Female Deities Aphrodite, Full Test Bank

Chapter 9: Myths of the Female Deities Aphrodite, Artemis, and Athena

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 - Question 01

1. Demeter was a mother-goddess who oversaw the fruitfulness of _______.

a. animals

b. agriculture, especially wheat

c. women

d. grape vines

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 - Question 02

2. Hestia is the Roman goddess _______.

a. Ceres

b. Diana

c. Vesta

d. Minerva

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 09 - Question 03

3. Which of the following are true of Hestia?

a. She was frequently caught in the middle of arguments between Hera and Zeus

b. According to many accounts, Dionysus took her place on Olympus

c. She was always a virgin

d. She never left Olympus

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 - Question 04

4. Aphrodite’s companion _______, sometimes considered her child by Ares, is the Roman Cupid.

a. Paphos

b. Eros

c. Cypris

d. Philê

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 - Question 05

5. Which of the following was a striking feature of the worship of Aphrodite at Corinth and Cythera and of the goddesses Inanna/Ishtar/Astartê?

a. Human sacrifice

b. The eating of raw animal flesh

c. Temple prostitution

d. The ritual drowning of swans and geese

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 - Question 06

6. Our word lesbian comes from Lesbos, the home island of which ancient female poet?

a. Aspasia

b. Corinna

c. Sappho

d. Mimnerma

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 - Question 07

7. Who fell hopelessly in love with Hermaphroditus, and clung to him so tightly that the two of them became one?

a. Scylla

b. Salmacis

c. Antimachia

d. Cytherea

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 - Question 08

8. Except for the affair between Ares and Aphrodite, all important stores about Aphrodite are set where?

a. In Arcadia

b. On the island of Cythera

c. Outside Greece

d. In Corinth

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 - Question 09

9. How did Aphrodite punish the arrogant boast of Cinyras’ wife?

a. By making Cinyras impotent for the rest of his life

b. By killing their child Myrrha

c. By causing Myrrha to fall in love with Cinyras

d. By causing Cinyras’ wife to become barren, and killing Cinyras himself

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 - Question 10

10. The Eastern origin of the story of Adonis are evident in his name, which means “_______.”

a. lord

b. rebirth

c. youth

d. lover

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 - Question 11

11. The blood from Adonis’ fatal wound gives rise to which flower?

a. The red hibiscus

b. The red anemone

c. The red rose

d. The red rose

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 09 - Question 12

12. According to the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, who are the three goddesses whom Aphrodite can never trick or inveigle?

a. Artemis

b. Athena

c. Hera

d. Hestia

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 - Question 13

13. In the Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite, Zeus inspires Aphrodite with love for _______, a prince related to the Trojan royal house.

a. Adonis

b. Paris

c. Aeneas

d. Anchises

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 - Question 14

14. Which child of Aphrodite will grow up to be one of the few Trojan heroes to survive the destruction of the city?

a. Adonis

b. Paris

c. Anchises

d. Aeneas

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 - Question 15

15. Homer calls Artemis Potnia Thêrôn, which means “_______.”

a. “mother goddess”

b. “slayer from afar”

c. “supreme archer”

d. “mistress of the animals”

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 - Question 16

16. From which important cult center of Artemis (home of her famous temple, a Wonder of the Ancient World) did St. Paul flee for his life after being shouted down?

a. Corinth

b. Miletus

c. Ephesus

d. Rome

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 - Question 17

17. Who tells the exemplum of the fate of Niobê and her children in Homer’s Iliad?

a. Achilles

b. Andromache

c. Odysseus

d. Helen

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 - Question 18

18. The Theban _______ was killed by his own hunting dogs when he accidentally came upon Artemis bathing naked in a spring.

a. Arcas

b. Orion

c. Cadmus

d. Actaeon

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 - Question 19

19. The Parthenon was built in honor of which goddess?

a. Hera

b. Artemis

c. Athena

d. Aphrodite

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 09 - Question 20

20. The festival of the Panathenaic Games incorporated which of the following elements?

a. Gender role reversals

b. Music and poetry competitions

c. Athletic competitions

d. Religious ritual

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 09 - Question 21

21.

This vase depicts Artemis and Apollo slaughtering _______.

a. Actaeaon

b. Giants

c. the children of Niobê

d. both Greeks and Trojans during the fall of Troy