CLAS 2220 Exam 1 Questions and Answers
What is the first primordial "deity" according to Hesiod's Theogony?
Chaos/Chasm
Who is the translator of the version of Homer's Iliad that we will read at the end of this semester? Remember that this quiz is open book/notes.
Caroline Alexander
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CLAS 2220 Exam 1 Questions and
Answers
What is the first primordial "deity" according to Hesiod's Theogony? - answer
Chaos/Chasm
Who is the translator of the version of Homer's Iliad that we will read at the end of this
semester? Remember that this quiz is open book/notes. - answer Caroline
Alexander
Anthropomorphic deities are deities who have qualities like _______. - answer
humans
What is an example of a primordial deity? - answer Earth
What is the basic meaning of Cosmogony? - answer creation of the universe
What is the basic meaning of Anthropogony? - answer origin/creation of humankind
True or False? Ancient societies not only used or told myths, but were critics and
analysts of their own myths as well. - answer True
What is the OLDEST myth that we will read in this class? - answer Enuma Elish
What does the Greek word "mythos" (from which we get the English word "myth")
mean? - answer word or story
Many creation myths describe a struggle among gods for control of the universe. What
is this motif called? - answer succession myth
The creation myths that we will read in this class - Theogony and Enuma Elish - along
with the other myths discussed in Friday's lecture were originally told in cultures that
share a common origin in which geographical region? - answer Mesopotamia
The Enuma Elish, like Hesiod's Theogony, features a primordial female goddess who is
responsible for a monstrous threat to the supremacy of the final ruling god. What is the
name of that goddess? - answer Tiamat
According to Hesiod's Theogony, what benefit do human leaders (kings) get from the
Muses? - answer the power of voice, leading to justice, prudence, and persuasion.
In Hesiod's Theogony, Typhoeus is the offspring of which goddess? - answer Gaia
, What is the order of ruling gods in the succession myths of Hesiod's Theogony? -
answer Ouranos --> Kronos --> Zeus
Which of the following terms is the closest English equivalent to the Greek idea of
aition? - answer cause
According to Hesiod's Theogony, what leadership quality does Zeus have that others
were lacking? - answer diplomacy and a willingness to form alliances
What physical aspect of the world do the primordial gods Apsu and Tiamat represent in
the Enuma Elish? - answer water
In what two ways does Prometheus help humankind in Hesiod's Theogony? You must
choose two and only two answers. - answer He steals fire from the gods and gives it
to humans. & He tricks Zeus into accepting the inedible parts of sacrifice animals.
Hesiod's Theogony does not begin with the origins of the universe - instead, what is the
first theogony (or god origin story) narrated in the poem? - answer the birth of the
Muses
True or False? The Theogony is equally about the creation of humans (anthropogony)
as it is about the origins of the gods (theogony) and the universe (cosmogony). - answer
False
In the Babylonian creation myth Enuma Elish, from what material does Marduk create
the world? - answer the body of Tiamat
Which of the following are important allies of Zeus in his effort to consolidate his power
and maintain his position among the gods? - answer The Hundred-Handers
According to Hesiod, the Muses are the daughters of ---. - answer Zeus and
Mnemosyne (Memory)
True or false? There was a unified political unit in antiquity called "Greece" or "Hellas". -
answer False
Both the Delian and Pythian sections of the Homeric Hymn to Apollo contain a scene of
wandering or searching. Who is the searcher in the Pythian section? - answer Apollo
In the Homeric Hymn to Apollo, the mother of the snaky-monster Typhoeus/Typhaon is
not Gaia, but ______. - answer Hera
The most basic function of a hymn is ______. - answer a prayer to a god.
What is given as the aition for Apollo's cult title 'Delphinian'? - answer He appeared
to the Cretan sailors as a Dolphin.
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