CLAS 3308: MYTHS AND THE CULT
OF ANCIENT GODS
KEY TO TEST II
PART I (Scantron)
The following are true statements:
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Question # 1: b c d
Question # 2: a b
c
Comments:
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d) Orion tried to rape Artemis and the goddess had him killed by a scorpion.
Both were eventually placed in the sky as constellations.
Question # 3: c
Comments:
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d) Asclepius was the god of medicine.
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e) No such judgment is associated in the Greek tradition with the
function of Hermes as psychopomp.
Question # 4: a d
e
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b) Hermes led the ghosts of the dead to the underworld.
Question # 5: b c e
Comments:
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c) Dione is in Homer the mother of Aphrodite.
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d) This happened to Tithonus, loved by Eos (Dawn).
Question # 6: a b
c d e
Question # 7: b d e
Comments:
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c) It is not known what, if anything, was shown or said to the initiands
at Eleusis.
Question # 8: c
Comments:
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b) No such sacrifices were done in the rituals of lamentation for Adonis.
Women cultivated spices in small pots, the "gardens of Adonis."
PART II
B) Matching question. The correct answers are:
a) 2; b) 14; c) 5; d) 9; e) 10; f) 13; g) 12; h) 8; i) 7; j) 6; k) 11;
l) 15; m) 1; n) 3; o) 4.
