Test Questions & Answers Myths Of Death Encounters With Ch12

Chapter 12: Myths of Death: Encounters with the Underworld

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 12 - Question 01

1. Which of the following are other names by which Hades was known to the Greeks and Romans?

a. Satan

b. Dis

c. Pluto

d. Atma

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 - Question 02

2. In ancient Greece, the soul of a dead body survived as a sort of eidolon, or “_______.”

a. image

b. growth

c. attachment

d. residue

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 12 - Question 03

3. In Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, and Hebrew, the words for which two things are related?

a. “breath”

b. “death”

c. “fire”

d. “wind”

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 - Question 04

4. _______, such as those at funerals and weddings, will traditionally frighten a ghost.

a. Ceremonial toasts

b. A song

c. A loud noise

d. Kisses

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 - Question 05

5. Which philosopher was among those who claimed that death was the soul’s end as well as the body’s?

a. Heraclitus

b. Anaximander

c. Epicurus

d. Anaxagoras

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 - Question 06

6. Odysseus travels to the land of the dead in the Odyssey in order to consult _______.

a. Hades

b. Orpheus

c. Melampus

d. Tiresias

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 - Question 07

7. How did Tiresias become blind?

a. His eyes were clawed out by the Sphinx

b. He asked Zeus for the gift of prophecy (“inner sight”), which meant that he lost his “outer sight”

c. He ruled in favor of Zeus that women get more pleasure out of sex, and Hera struck him blind

d. He got drunk, lost a bet, and poked his eyeballs out

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 - Question 08

8. How did Elpenor die, according to his own ghost?

a. He was accidentally drowned by an amorous nymph

b. He fell off the roof of Circe’s palace and broke his neck

c. He was bit by a poisonous snake in his sleep

d. He drank himself to death

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 - Question 09

9. How did Anticlea die, according to her own ghost?

a. Plague

b. Poisoned wine

c. Fighting the suitors who were trying to take over his palace on Ithaca

d. Grief over Odysseus’ long absence

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 - Question 10

10. Whose ghost famously tells Odysseus that he would prefer “to serve as a hireling to another, a man who is / landless and hungry himself, than here to be ruler / of all the shriveled-up dead”?

a. Ajax

b. Agamemnon

c. Heracles

d. Achilles

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 12 - Question 11

11. Which of the following serve as judges of the dead in later accounts of the underworld?

a. Rhadamanthys

b. Minos

c. Aeacus

d. Daedalus

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 - Question 12

12. Who was famous for tricking Death, and even escaped from the underworld to live a second life ?

a. Sisyphus

b. Odysseus

c. Nestor

d. Tantalus

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 - Question 13

13. Why does Odysseus end up making a rapid departure from the underworld?

a. Cerberus finally finds him

b. He sees a massive crowd of angry Trojan ghosts approaching him

c. He can bear the grief of his dead comrades’ stories no longer

d. He fears that Persephonê might send some destructive Gorgon

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 12 - Question 14

14. Which of the following statements are true of Orpheus?

a. He was an Argonaut

b. According to some accounts he invented the lyre

c. His music enchanted wild animals

d. He was the only son of Aphrodite and Adonis

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Title: Chapter 12 - Question 15

15. After his death, Orpheus was killed by _______.

a. the Nemean lion

b. Thracian Bacchae

c. Heracles

d. A poisonous snake

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 - Question 16

16. According to the Orphic cosmogony, in the beginning was _______.

a. Erebus, “darkness”

b. Clotho, “spinner”

c. Chronos, “time”

d. Logos, “reason”

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 - Question 17

17. Who distracted Dionysus Zagreus with toys and tore him limb from limb?

a. Lycurgus

b. The Titans

c. Typhoeus

d. Hades

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 - Question 18

18. The origin and nature of Orphic teachings seem to be connected with the equally obscure doctrines of _______.

a. Clement of Alexandria

b. Lycophron

c. Pythagoras

d. Heraclitus

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 - Question 19

19. In Plato’s myth about Er, the destiny that each soul chose was confirmed by the third of the fates, _______.

a. Atropos

b. Dia

c. Danaë

d. Clotho

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 - Question 20

20. Who was famous for violating a cloud in the shape of Hera, and creating the father of the Centaurs by spilling his seed on the ground?

a. Tantalus

b. Ixion

c. Danaus

d. Teucer

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 12 - Question 21

21.

Hermes is depicted on the left here in what capacity?

a. As psychopompos

b. As thanatophoros

c. As aoidos

d. As a follower of Orpheus