Chapter 15 Student Quiz

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. In the myth of Er, where do the virtuous go?

to Elysium correct incorrect

the Islands of the Blessed correct incorrect

upward through an opening in the sky correct incorrect

to Olympus correct incorrect

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. The name Hades may mean:

the brother of Zeus correct incorrect

god of the dead correct incorrect

the unseen one correct incorrect

the cruel one correct incorrect

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. Which of the following is not a judge in the Underworld?

Minos correct incorrect

Aeacus correct incorrect

Charon correct incorrect

Rhadamanthys correct incorrect

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. What suicide does not respond to Odysseus at all?

Neoptolemus correct incorrect

Ajax correct incorrect

Patroclus correct incorrect

Heracles correct incorrect

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. How was Ixion punished in the Underworld?

He had to roll a stone up a hill. correct incorrect

He had to bring water in a sieve. correct incorrect

He was bound to a revolving wheel. correct incorrect

He was forever hungry and thirsty. correct incorrect

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. In the Underworld, what is the River of Forgetfulness?

Styx correct incorrect

Acheron correct incorrect

Cocytus correct incorrect

Lethe correct incorrect

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. What does the term chthonian mean?

It is another term for an Olympian deity. correct incorrect

It refers to a divinity who is of the sky. correct incorrect

It refers to a divinity who is of the earth. correct incorrect

It refers to one condemned to Tartarus. correct incorrect

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. What region of the Underworld is Hell?

the Mourning Fields correct incorrect

the Fields of the Untimely Dead correct incorrect

Tartarus correct incorrect

Elysium correct incorrect

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. Who dressed himself as Zeus and imitated the god's thunder and lightning?

Mopsus correct incorrect

Sisyphus correct incorrect

Tyro correct incorrect

Salmoneus correct incorrect

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. What does Aeneas not bring with him when he enters the Underworld?

a sop for Cerberus correct incorrect

a coin for Charon correct incorrect

the golden bough correct incorrect

the Cumaean Sibyl correct incorrect

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. Aeneas travels to the Underworld:

to see Dido correct incorrect

to find his way to Italy correct incorrect

to offer sacrifice for the dead correct incorrect

to speak with his father, Anchises correct incorrect

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. In what dialogue can Plato's myth of Er be found?

the Apology correct incorrect

the Phaedo correct incorrect

the Republic correct incorrect

the Symposium correct incorrect

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. With whom of the buried dead did Odysseus first speak in the Underworld?

the seer, Tiresias correct incorrect

his mother, Anticlea correct incorrect

his father, Laërtes correct incorrect

his comrade, Agamemnon correct incorrect

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. Achilles in the Underworld tells Odysseus:

that he should beware the fickle heart of women and return home quickly correct incorrect

that he should find his body and bury it properly correct incorrect

that he should not have killed Hector correct incorrect

that he would rather be a slave among the living than a king in Hades correct incorrect

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. What comrade did Odysseus find had not been properly buried?

Elpenor correct incorrect

Agamemnon correct incorrect

Achilles correct incorrect

Ajax correct incorrect

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. Both Odysseus and Aeneas try three times to grasp one of the shades. Who were they?

Anticlea and Dido correct incorrect

Achilles and Dido correct incorrect

Anticlea and Anchises correct incorrect

Tiresias and Anchises correct incorrect

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. What arose from the blood of Uranus' genitals?

the Erinyes correct incorrect

the Fates correct incorrect

new souls correct incorrect

the Gorgons correct incorrect

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. What comedy by Aristophanes features the god Dionysus journeying to the Underworld?

Clouds correct incorrect

Frogs correct incorrect

Birds correct incorrect

Wasps correct incorrect

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. What creature guards the realm of Tartarus in Vergil's Underworld?

the Theban Sphinx correct incorrect

the dog Cerberus correct incorrect

the Lernaean Hydra correct incorrect

the fury Tisiphone correct incorrect

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. Whom must Aeneas bury to enter the Underworld?

Deïphobus correct incorrect

Anchises correct incorrect

Misenus correct incorrect

Achates correct incorrect

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. Who was the tyrant of Pamphylia and murderer of his parents in the the myth of Er?

Ardiaeus correct incorrect

Minos correct incorrect

Glaucon correct incorrect

Polycrates correct incorrect

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. Who dies longing for Odysseus' return?

Laërtes correct incorrect

Anticlea correct incorrect

Alcmena correct incorrect

Tiresias correct incorrect