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Chapter 19: Jason and the Myths of Iolcus and Calydon

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 19 - Question 01

1. Which of the following are among the features of Thessaly?

a. It was the birthplace of Achilles

b. It was where Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon drew lots to determine their domains

c. The Peneus River flows through it

d. It was famous for horses and horse-breeders

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 19 - Question 02

2. The most important literary version of the voyage of the Argo is the Argonautica of _______.

a. Quintus of Smyrna

b. Nonnus

c. Menander

d. Apollonius of Rhodes

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 19 - Question 03

3. Who are the children of Athamas and Nephelê?

a. Phrixus

b. Salmoneus

c. Hellê

d. Melicertes

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 19 - Question 04

4. The place where Hellê fell off the golden ram is still known as the _______ today.

a. Bosporus

b. Hellespont

c. Aea

d. Ram’s Pass

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 19 - Question 05

5. _______, the son of Helius, ruled Colchis.

a. Aeolus

b. Aeëtes

c. Aeson

d. Apsyrtus

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 19 - Question 06

6. Bringing Medea to Greece to kill Pelias was all a roundabout plan contrived by_______.

a. Artemis

b. Athena

c. Aphrodite

d. Hera

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 19 - Question 07

7. Which two brothers are together known as the Boreads, the sons of the North Wind Boreas?

a. Idas

b. Zetes

c. Calaïs

d. Lynceus

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 19 - Question 08

8. After being entertained hospitably by _______, the young king of the Doliones, Jason accidentally kills him during a night battle.

a. Cyzicus

b. Amycus

c. Hylas

d. Tiphys

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 19 - Question 09

9. Who was tormenting Phineus when the Argonauts arrived in his kingdom?

a. The Trojans

b. The Chimera

c. Phoenician pirates

d. The Harpies

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 19 - Question 10

10. Whom did Aphrodite send to prick Medea with love for Jason?

a. The Horae

b. Eros

c. The Graces

d. Priapus

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 19 - Question 11

11. What does Medea give Jason in order to help him complete the daunting tasks that Aeëtes sets for him?

a. A cap of invisibility

b. A suit of armor made of dragon’s teeth

c. A magic ointment to smear on his sword, shield, and body

d. The caduceus of Hermes

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 19 - Question 12

12. Who is Medea’s brother, who one way or another meets a bloody end as he pursues Jason and Medea?

a. Salmoneus

b. Talus

c. Alcinoüs

d. Apsyrtus

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 19 - Question 13

13. What are the Argonauts forced to do when they find themselves in the hot sands of the Syrtis?

a. Worship Heracles like a god in order to convince him to help them

b. Carry the Argo on their shoulders for nine days

c. Continue their journey underground

d. Eat their own helmsman

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Title: Chapter 19 - Question 14

14. How does Pelias finally kill off Aeson?

a. By ambushing him on the way to a spring

b. By killing him in his sleep

c. By chaining him to the gate of Iolcus and denying him food

d. By permitting him bull’s blood to drink

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 19 - Question 15

15. After Jason and Medea flee to Corinth, Jason grows dissatisfied with Medea and decides to marry _______.

a. Tyro

b. Glauê

c. Creusa

d. Pyrrha

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 19 - Question 16

16. How does Jason die?

a. He is ambushed by the sons of Pelias

b. He dies of old age

c. He is poisoned by Medea’s son Medus

d. A plank of the Argo falls off and conks him on the head

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 19 - Question 17

17. Calydon is the capital of which district?

a. Aetolia

b. Magnesia

c. Acarnania

d. Phocis

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 19 - Question 18

18. Which goddess, offended by Oeneus, sent a great boar to ravage the countryside of Calydon?

a. Athena

b. Hera

c. Artemis

d. Demeter

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 19 - Question 19

19. What is the cause of the dispute that results in Meleager killing his uncles?

a. Meleager tried to give the boar’s pelt to Atalanta

b. Meleager accused his uncles of cowardice during the hunt for the boar

c. Meleager wanted to eat the boar immediately

d. Meleager refused to thank his uncles for their help

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 19 - Question 20

20. How did Melanion defeat Atalanta in a footrace?

a. He dropped golden apples behind him

b. He prayed to Zephyrus, the West Wind, before the race

c. He borrowed Hermes’ winged sandals

d. He drugged Atalanta before the race begins

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 19 - Question 21

21.

On this wine jug we see the death of _______, the bronze giant who protected the island of Crete from strangers.

a. Boreas

b. Athamas

c. Talus

d. Apsyrtus