Chapter 1 Self-Quiz

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. Hesiod claimed to write his poems

after exhaustive study of the heavens and the earth. correct incorrect

by collecting stories that had been passed down from the ancestors. correct incorrect

through divine inspiration. correct incorrect

because he was bored while herding sheep on holy Helicon. correct incorrect

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. Zeus came to be "father of gods and men," according to Hesiod,

by swallowing a stone and vomiting it up again. correct incorrect

through war against his father. correct incorrect

by general acclamation of all the other gods. correct incorrect

because he was the first-born son of Earth and Heaven. correct incorrect

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. The quarrel between Achilles and Agamemnon began when

Agamemnon demanded that Achilles give him the woman Achilles had been awarded as spoils from a battle. correct incorrect

Hector killed Achilles' friend, Patroclus. correct incorrect

Achilles wanted the woman Agamemnon had been awarded as spoils from a battle. correct incorrect

Apollo sent a plague on the army. correct incorrect

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. The gods, in Homer's poem,

urge men to be more like themselves. correct incorrect

live in delight and splendor on Olympus, scarcely ever thinking about the affairs of men. correct incorrect

function as moral ideals for human beings, who have a hard time living up to the gods' standards. correct incorrect

care about the honor given them by men. correct incorrect