CLAS 260 QUIZ 4/CLAS260 Week 4 Creation, Demeter - A+ (Verified Answers) 2020

CLAS 260 QUIZ 4_ Creation, Demeter 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