CLAS 260 QUIZ /CLLAS 260 Week 4Creation, Demeter - Fall 2020 - San Francisco State University- A+ (2020 Verified Answers)

CLAS 260 QUIZ 4_ Creation, Demeter _ Fall 2020 – San Francisco State University Question 1 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 Why is Prometheus punished by Zeus? Select one: a. Zeus feared that Prometheus would one day set the other Titans free. b. He hid the new-born god, Dionysus, who Zeus feared would overthrow him one day. c. He tried to rape Zeus' wife, Hera. d. He tricked Zeus twice, once in a sacrifice and another in giving fire to human beings. Your answer is correct. The correct answer is: He tricked Zeus twice, once in a sacrifice and another in giving fire to human beings. Question 2 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 Which of the following is the correct chronological arrangement of the five races of man? Select one: a. Bronze-Golden-Heroic-Silver-Iron b. Golden-Heroic-Silver-Bronze-Iron c. Heroic-Golden-Bronze-Silver-Iron d. Golden-Silver-Bronze-Heroic-Iron Your answer is correct. The correct answer is: Golden-Silver-Bronze-Heroic-Iron Question 3 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 Which of the following correctly attributes an action with the figure who performed it? Select one: a. Enki-overthrew Tiamat b. Deucalion-told Epimetheus to make the first man c. Hephaestus-made Pandora d. Lycaon-threw bones over his shoulder to recreate humankind Your answer is correct. The correct answer is: Hephaestus-made Pandora Question 4 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 What was the name of the temple where the final Mysteries of Demeter were held? Select one: a. Telesterion in Eleusis b. Parthenon in Athens c. Adyton in Delphi d. Anaktoron in Mycenae Your answer is correct. The correct answer is: Telesterion in Eleusis Question 5 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 In what way was the temple that housed Demeter's Mysteries unique in Greek sacred architecture? Select one: a. it was built on stilts. b. It was designed to hold people on the inside. c. It was made of wood. d. It housed Demeter's sacred snake. Your answer is correct. The correct answer is: It was designed to hold people on the inside. Question 6 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 To whom does Demeter teach the sacred rites and the techniques of cultivation? Select one: a. Hierophant the Seer b. Triptolemus the Eleusinian Prince c. Demophon the Eleusinian Royal Baby d. Attis the Anatolian Prince Your answer is correct. The correct answer is: Triptolemus the Eleusinian Prince Question 7 Incorrect 0.00 points out of 1.00 Which of the following did NOT suffer by the actions of Dionysus? Select one: a. Exekias b. Midas c. Pentheus d. The Minyads Your answer is incorrect. The correct answer is: Exekias Question 8 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 Who is the author of play, the Bacchae, which portrays the myth of the resistance to Dionysus in the city of Thebes? Select one: a. Aeschylus b. Sophocles c. Bacchylides d. Euripides Your answer is correct. The correct answer is: Euripides Question 9 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 In the Bacchae, Dionysus arrived in Thebes to punish a blaspheme against his mother. What is this blaspheme? Select one: a. That she was a priestess to the Phrygian goddess Cybelê. b. That she was driven insane and tried to tear apart her own son, the infant Dionysus. c. That she was not immortal. d. That she was impregnated by a mere mortal, not Zeus. Your answer is correct. The correct answer is: That she was impregnated by a mere mortal, not Zeus. Question 10 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 In the Bacchae, when Dionysus brings his cult to the city of Thebes, who goes out into the countryside? Select one: a. The women and the children b. The old men and the king c. The old men and the women Your answer is correct. The correct answer is: The old men and the women Question 11 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 Who is the speaker of these lines from the Bacchae: "Just let me catch him here inside the palace! I’ll end his pounding with his leaf-topped staff. I’ll stop that showoff tossing of his hair by chopping his pretty head from off his body?" Select one: a. Agavê b. Dionysus c. Cadmus d. Pentheus Your answer is correct. The correct answer is: Pentheus Question 12 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 In the Bacchae, Dionysus casts a spell over the King of Thebes and leads him out of the city to the hills in disguise. What is the disguise? Select one: a. A goat b. A panther c. A woman d. A rabbit Your answer is correct. The correct answer is: A woman Question 13 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 The statement _______________ is NOT true about the Banquet at Mekonê. Select one: a. Mekonê is where Prometheus tricked Zeus out of the better sacrifice. b. Zeus took fire from mortals to punish Prometheus for the Mekonê episode. c. Hesiod depicts Zeus as having been aware of the trick all along. d. Zeus punished Prometheus for the trick at Meconê by lashing him to a rock and allowing him to be tortured. Your answer is correct. The correct answer is: Zeus punished Prometheus for the trick at Meconê by lashing him to a rock and allowing him to be tortured. Question 14 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 "At the side of its lady mother, nursing and playing at home, a child spent a hundred years, no better, indeed, than a baby. When finally he grew up and reached the measure of manhood, he lived for a few years more, in trouble through his own folly." This passage is from the description of _______________ . Select one: a. The Silver Race b. The Golden Race c. The Bronze Race d. The Iron Race Your answer is correct. The correct answer is: The Silver Race Question 15 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 "…sprung from ash-trees, concerned with the bloody labor of Ares. They ate no bread from the earth, for their spirits were bent upon plunder. No one dared to approach them, so mighty and strong were the hands that grew from invincible arms beneath their muscular shoulders." This passage is from the description of _______________ . Select one: a. The Iron Race b. The Silver Race c. The Golden Race d. The Bronze Race Your answer is correct. The correct answer is: The Bronze Race Question 16 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 _______________ abducted Persephonê, the daughter of Demeter and Zeus. Select one: a. Ares b. Hermes c. Poseidon d. Hades Your answer is correct. The correct answer is: Hades Question 17 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 _______________ was the only one who could cheer the grieving Demeter. Select one: a. Iambê b. Callidice c. Deo d. Callithoë Your answer is correct. The correct answer is: Iambê Question 18 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 Dionysus' mother is _______________ . Select one: a. Semelê b. Ino c. Agavê d. Autonoë Your answer is correct. The correct answer is: Semelê Question 19 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 The trickery of _______________ was responsible for the death of Dionysus' mother. Select one: a. Agavê b. Zeus c. Hera d. Cybelê Your answer is correct. The correct answer is: Hera Question 20 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 Dionysus learned how to make _______________ in Nysa, while being protected by the nymphs who lived there. Select one: a. Wine b. Women into Bacchants c. Panther-drawn Chariots d. Bread Your answer is correct. The correct answer is: Wine Question 21 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 Among the followers of Dionysus were the satyrs, bawdy half-human, half-horse creatures, who were nearly always drunk and sexually aroused. The term _______________ can be either the proper name for one of the satyrs or a general term for an old satyr. Select one: a. Sparagmos b. Bacchae c. Silenus d. Omophagia Your answer is correct. The correct answer is: Silenus Question 22 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 The myth of _______________ may be etiological to explain why the eastern kingdom of Lydia was so wealthy in antiquity. Select one: a. Midas b. Orpheus c. Dionysus' descent into the Underworld d. Pentheus Your answer is correct. The correct answer is: Midas Question 23 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 The train of women followers of Dionysus were called Bacchae ("women of Bacchus") or _______________ ("the raging women"). Select one: a. Sileni b. Minyads c. Proetids d. Maenads Your answer is correct. The correct answer is: Maenads Question 24 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 _______________ is a stick carried by Dionysus' followers. Select one: a. Thyrsus b. Demos c. Caduceus d. Lysios Your answer is correct. The correct answer is: Thyrsus Question 25 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 According the Hesiod, the fourth race of men, created by Zeus, were the half-gods: the Heroes. Select one: True False The correct answer is 'True'. Question 26 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 Zeus is always the great benefactor and savior of humankind in its early stages. Select one: True False The correct answer is 'False'. Question 27 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 Though many ancient myths present early humans as living in a paradise or Eden-like setting, Aeschylus presented early man as being rude, savage, witless, and lacking in consciousness. Select one: True False The correct answer is 'True'. Question 28 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 Achilles was the Greek hero who freed the Titan Prometheus from Zeus's torture. Select one: True False The correct answer is 'False'. Question 29 Incorrect 0.00 points out of 1.00 Zeus punished humankind with the flood because of the cruel way he was treated while visiting Hellen’s home. Select one: True False The correct answer is 'False'. Question 30 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 For the most part, ancient myth depicts humankind as arising spontaneously, and not as a result of the deliberate action of an artisan god. Select one: True False The correct answer is 'False'. Question 31 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 The various Greek myths about humankind's origins and early life — Prometheus, Pandora, the Ages, the Flood, etc. — are consistent with each other. Select one: True False The correct answer is 'False'. Question 32 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 Because of Prometheus's trick, humankind can eat the meat of a sacrificed animal. Select one: True False The correct answer is 'True'. Question 33 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 The etiological significance of the Hymn to Demeter is that it explains the origins of the Oracle at Delphi. Select one: True False The correct answer is 'False'. Question 34 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 When she first learned of her daughter's fate, Demeter was pleased that Persephonê would be the Queen of the Underworld. Select one: True False The correct answer is 'False'. Question 35 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 Triptolemus, to whom Demeter taught the sacred rites of her worship, plays an insignificant role in the Hymn to Demeter, though he was quite the popular figure in Athens. Select one: True False The correct answer is 'True'. Question 36 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 The best-known story of resistance to Dionysus' rites was set in Thebes. Select one: True False The correct answer is 'True'. Question 37 Correct 1.00 points out of 1.00 The speaker of this quotation is Semelê: "Appear to me as you appear to Hera, when you make love to her!" Select one: True False The correct answer is 'True'. San Francisco State University Academic Technology A California State University Campus