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1. What is given to Cronus to eat instead of his son, Zeus?
2. How does Prometheus anger the gods?
3. How does Odysseus escape Polyphemus’s cave?
4. In what practice do the flower myths of Hyacinth and Adonis probably have their roots?
5. How does Psyche betray Cupid?
6. What famous couple does the story of Pyramus and Thisbe most closely resemble?
7. Without whose help would Jason not have gotten the Golden Fleece?
8. How does Signy avenge her father’s death?
9. What does Bellerophon foolishly try to do?
10. What is the name of Daedalus’s son?
11. For what is Perseus most famous?
12. How does Theseus cause his father’s death?
13. What does Theseus supposedly invent?
14. Which of the following does Hercules not accomplish?
15. From which three goddesses does Paris have to choose the fairest?
16. Which of the following were all great Greek heroes in the Trojan War?
17. Why is Achilles killed by an arrow in his heel?
18. Why did the Trojans take the gigantic wooden horse within the city’s walls?
19. Whose heart does Aeneas break?
20. About how long is Odysseus away from Ithaca?
21. The myths served many functions for the Greeks. Which of the following purposes did they not serve?
22. What is Odysseus the only man ever to do and survive?
23. Of what city is Aeneas is considered the “real” founder?
24. In Norse mythology, on what day is the world destined to end?
25. With whose help does Clytemnestra slaughter her husband, Agamemnon?
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