Quiz 008

Episode 8 Quiz

Welcome to the quiz for Episode 008: Before Orthodoxy. See what you remember about Hesiod’s <i>Theogony</i> and Archaic Greece’s creation story by clicking “START” below!

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What did Kronos do his children?

He imprisoned them in Hades.

He ate them.

He built sacrilegious idols to them.

He fed them to the elemental gods.

He burned them.

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In Hesiod’s Theogony, the goddess Aphrodite is born when:

Gaia produces the titans from the depths of Etna and Aphrodite slips through from Erebus.

Zeus rapes Leda in the form of a swan, producing first Aphrodite and then the mortal girl Helen of Troy.

The Goddess of Strife, Eris, is allowed to create a lieutenant goddess, and she creates Aphrodite.

Eros and Tartaros, the forces of desire and outer darkness, come together to produce a deity who represents them both.

A froth of blood and foam when the severed genitals of Ouranos fall into the sea.

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Dactylic hexameter pervades the poetry of Hesiod and Homer. Each foot of this type of meter goes “STRESSED – unstressed – unstressed.” Given that the symbol “U” represents a STRESSED syllable, and the symbol “^” represents an unstressed syllable, which of the choices below represents dactylic hexameter?

U^^ U^^ U^^ U^^ U^^

^U ^U ^U ^U

^^U ^^U ^^U ^^U ^^U ^^U

U^^ U^^ U^^ U^^ U^^ U^^

^U ^U ^U ^U ^U

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Who were the parents of the Olympian Pantheon (in other words, the parents of Demeter, Hades, Poseidon, Zeus, Hera, Hestia, etc.)?

Iapetus and Phoebe

Typhoios and Echidna

Aphrodite and Hephaestus

Gaia and Ouranos

Kronos and Rhea

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The poems of Hesiod and Homer were recited over which two instruments?

The aulos (double reed flute) and the bouzouki.

The setar (four string middle eastern lute) and the lyre.

The harmonium and the lyre.

The lyre and the bouzouki.

The lyre and aulos (double reed flute).

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Rhyme, meter, alliteration, and other structural devices in poetry served a hugely important purpose before written languages became standard. What was this purpose?

These structural features helped practitioners of oral tradition remember and transmit stories.

These flowery features helped ancient bards court their lovers.

Ancient Greek poetry, written on amphoras, kraters, and other types of pottery, had to fit within the constraints of wherever it was set down.

Before writing, cultures could best recognize each other by listening to one another's rhyme schemes and meters.

Ancient poetry was always recited in pairs, with opposite speakers delivering the ABAB rhyme scheme.

7 / 10

Who is Ouranos’ wife?

Tethys

Stheno

Rhea

Gaia

Euryale

8 / 10

This deity kills his father Ouranos.

Kronos

Zeus

Eros

Atlas

Chaos

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What is Zeus’ grandpa’s name?

Ouranos

Kronos

Typhoios

Eros

Iapetus

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A deity whom Zeus fights at the end of the Titanomachy or War of the Titans, “A god whose hands were like engines of war. . .from whose shoulders grew / The hundred heads of a frightful dragon.”

Python

Tartaros

Typhoios

Athos

Echidna

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