Deck 10: Myths of Fertility I: Demeter and Related Myths

Question 1

Persephonê is often simply called _______.

A) Korê
B) the Great Goddess
C) Tritogeneia
D) Nymphê

Answer 1

A

Question 2

When a grieving Demeter becomes a nurse to the royal couple's son, Demophon, she tries to make him immortal by doing what?

A) by making him drink her ichor
B) by dipping him into the river Styx
C) by giving him ambrosia and placing him in the fire at night
D) by feeding him the meat of a sacred goat

Answer 2

C

Question 3

What does Persephone eat, which in her living in the Underworld for part of the year?

A) A pomegranate
B) Bread
C) An olive
D) A gyro

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Who saw Persephonê's abduction and informs Demeter about it?

A) Poseidon
B) Helius
C) Rhea
D) Zeus

Question 5

Who are the king and queen of Eleusis who take in a disguised Demeter as nurse to their son Demophon?

A) Leander and Hero
B) Aristeas and Lydê
C) Phorkys and Ceto
D) Celeus and Metaneira

Question 6

In Greece the wheat seed is place in the ground in _______.

A) summer
B) autumn
C) winter
D) spring

Question 7

When a Greek girl died unmarried, she was said to be _______.

A) a mater dolorosa
B) Demeter's daughter
C) Hades' bride
D) Demeter's sister

Question 8

The word mystery comes from the Greek mystês, meaning "_______."?

A) one who closes
B) herald
C) ambassador
D) one who seeks

Question 9

Which of the following two families were in charge of the Eleusinian Mysteries?

A) The Lagids
B) The Eumolpids
C) The Kerykes
D) The Alcmaeonids

Question 10

What is the name of the rectangular stone building that stood inside the Telesterion at Eleusis?

A) The Propylaea
B) The Erechtheion
C) The Encheiridion
D) The Anaktoron

Question 11

Which of the following are aspects of the experience of the Eleusinian Mysteries?

A) It fostered a feeling of community among Greeks
B) It promised a happy afterlife
C) It was open only to all, including murderers
D) It ensured the growth of grain

Question 12

Who is the Mesopotamian ruler of the underworld, and sister to Inanna?

A) Nudimmud
B) Ereshkigal
C) Shamkatum
D) Lugalbanda

Question 13

What happens to Innana when the Annunaki gods condemn her to death?

A) She is transformed into a dead bat in a cage
B) She dissolves into the Ocean Below
C) She turns into a decayed side of meat and is hung on a stake
D) Her bones are added to the thrones of the Annunaki gods

Question 14

Whom does Inanna select to take her place in the underworld?

A) Lugalbanda
B) Utu
C) Enki
D) Dumuzi

Question 15

The story of Zeus making love to Hera on Mt. Ida in the Iliad may depend on the concept of the _______.

A) parthenos
B) parergon
C) stella maris
D) hieros gamos

Question 16

In Christianity, the Virgin Mary's blue dress, crescent moon, and title "star of the sea" were taken from the Roman form of the cult of ______.

A) Isis
B) Cybelê
C) Galatea
D) Ceres

Question 17

Who plotted the downfall of Osiris by secretly measuring him, building a box to contain him, and then arranging to trap him in it at a banquet?

A) Horus
B) Isis
C) Typhoeus
D) Thoth

Question 18

Which of the following are among the etiological features of the myth of Isis and Osiris?

A) Context for the Egyptians' understanding of their pharaohs
B) Why there were so many temples to Osiris
C) Why two gods with the name of Horus were represented differently
D) The origin of the pyramids

Question 19

Which of the following are among the aspects of Cybelê?

A) She was a goddess of mountains
B) She was always depicted in art as drinking wine
C) She was primarily a goddess of fertility
D) She was a mistress of wild nature

Question 20

Which king arranged for Attis to marry his daughter, and walled off his town in order to keep ill-wishers away?

A) Priam
B) Midas
C) Cecrops
D) Agdestis

Question 21

Who are represented here?

A) Demeter and Zeus
B) Zeus and Hera
C) Celeus and Metaneira
D) Persephonê and Hades