Test Bank Ch17 The Myths Of Crete

Chapter 17: The Myths of Crete

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 17 - Question 01

1. On whom do we rely for most Cretan legends?

a. Minoan scribes

b. Roman writers

c. Greek authors of the Classical period

d. Greek authors of the Hellenistic period

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 17 - Question 02

2. Zeus fell in love with Europa and appeared to her in the form of a _______.

a. satyr

b. cloud

c. swan

d. bull

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 17 - Question 03

3. Whom did Zeus give Europa for protection on the island of Crete?

a. Talus

b. The Minotaur

c. Scylla

d. The Harpies

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 17 - Question 04

4. Why did Daedalus kill his nephew Perdix?

a. Because Perdix had seduced Daedalus’ wife

b. Because Perdix had tried to take credit for several of Daedalus’ inventions

c. Because Daedalus was jealous that Perdix invented the saw

d. Because Daedalus suspected him of trying to betray Athens to the Megarians

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 17 - Question 05

5. What is the name of the prison that Daedalus designs for the Minotaur?

a. The Bronze Tower

b. The Labyrinth

c. The Enigma

d. Mallia

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 17 - Question 06

6. What was the key to Nisus of Megara’s invulnerability?

a. A certain purple lock of hair on his head

b. A cloak given to him by Apollo

c. The gates of Megara remaining closed

d. A magic ring

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 17 - Question 07

7. Who immediately fell in love with Theseus when he arrived on Crete?

a. Scylla

b. Pasiphaë

c. Phaedra

d. Ariadnê

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 17 - Question 08

8. Theseus abandons Ariadnê on which island?

a. Samos

b. Thera

c. Naxos

d. Icaria

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 17 - Question 09

9. Who is Daedalus’ son?

a. Icarus

b. Danaüs

c. Deucalion

d. Phoenix

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 17 - Question 10

10. Daedalus escaped from Crete and landed on Sicily, where _______, the king of Camicus gave him refuge.

a. Cepheus

b. Catreus

c. Cilix

d. Cocalus

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 17 - Question 11

11. Which three scripts did Cretans use over the course of the Bronze Age for recording information?

a. Phoenician

b. Linear B

c. Linear A

d. Pictorial

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Title: Chapter 17 - Question 12

12. Scholars once thought that an enormous volcanic explosion on the island of _______ caused the destruction of Minoan power around 1450 BC.

a. Naxos

b. Crete

c. Thera

d. Aegina

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 17 - Question 13

13. Which fifth-century BC Athenian historian was a pioneer in efforts to distinguish myth from history?

a. Tacitus

b. Thucydides

c. Herodotus

d. Hipponax

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 17 - Question 14

14. The archaeological record behind myths about Crete lay buried until the efforts of ______, starring in 1899.

a. Arthur Evans

b. Heinrich Schliemann

c. Christos Doumas

d. John Chadwick

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 17 – Question 15

15. In 1992, to the amazement of the scholarly world, Minoan frescoes from about 1600 BC were found in _______.

a. Jerusalem

b. Athens

c. Normandy

d. the Nile delta

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 17 - Question 16

16. Most scholars agree that Bronze Age Cretans worshiped a mother-goddess represented as _______.

a. an egg

b. a huntress holding wild animals

c. a bare-breasted woman holding serpents

d. a double-edged ax

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Title: Chapter 17 - Question 17

17. Which Near Eastern god is, according to some scholars, associated with the myth of youths being fed to the Minotaur?

a. Anu

b. Tiamat

c. Baal

d. Enlil

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 17 - Question 18

18. Which of the following are examples of the excessive sexuality that characterizes myths surrounding Crete and its royal family?

a. Ariadnê’s willingness to betray her family and country

b. Scylla’s treachery on behalf of Minos

c. Phaedra’s lust for Hippolytus

d. Phoenix’s eagerness to remain in Phoenicia rather than look for Europa

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 17 - Question 19

19. Which of the following are elements of widespread patterns of ritual male initiation?

a. Being driven from one’s native town

b. Undergoing mock death and encountering demons

c. Being betrayed by a trickster god

d. Some form of sexual experience

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 17 - Question 20

20. The Greek word daidalos means “_______.”

a. master builder

b. deceptive

c. mercenary

d. skillfully made

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 17 - Question 21

21.

This acrobatic bull-leaping game is often represented in _______ art.

a. Hittite

b. Minoan

c. Mycenaean

d. Roman