Latin
Theseus Quiz (50)
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1. Where was Theseus born?
a. Troy
b. Troizen
c. Corinth
d. Athens
2. Who was Theseus’ mother?
a. Aethra
b. Phaedra
c. Medea
d. Pasiphae
3. Who is generally said to have been Theseus’ father?
a. Pittheus
b. Pelops
c. Aegeus
d. Hippolytus
4. Which deity is often said to have been Theseus’ father?
a. Zeus
b. Poseidon
c. Ares
d. Hades
5. Whom did Theseus’ father marry when he returned to Athens?
a. Aethra
b. Medea
c. Aglope
d. Phaedra
6. Why did he marry her?
a. she was pregnant with Theseus
b. she was very wealthy
c. she promised him an heir as he was childless
d. she was beautiful and a Greek
7. What did Theseus have to do to find out who his father was?
a. build a ship
b. consult an oracle
c. visit the Underworld
d. move a rock
8. What route to Athens did Theseus’ maternal grandfather, Pittheus, suggest to Theseus?
a. avoid Scylla and Charybdis when he came to them
c. go by sea
b. take the road along the coast
d. borrow Daedalus’ wings and fly
9. Which of the following did Theseus do?
a. avoid Scylla and Charybdis when he came to them
b. take the road along the coast
c. go by sea
d. borrow Daedalus’ wings and fly
10. Which club-wielding malicious monster/monstrous mortal did Theseus first encounter?
a. Periphetes
b. the Minotaur
c. Sciron
d. Sinis
11. Which of the following was his nickname which means “club wielding”?
a. Asterion
b. Pityocamptes
c. Corynetes
d. Damastes
12. Who were this club-wielder’s parents?
a. Hephaestus/Anticleia
b. Phorcus/Ceto
c. Pelops/Hippodameia
d. Typhon/Echidna
13. How did Theseus kill this club-wielding guy?
a. with the brigand’s own club
c. pushed him off a cliff
b. strangled him
d. with his father’s sword
14. Which malicious monster or monstrous mortal killed his victims by having them flung apart by pine trees?
a. Cercyon
b. Phaea
c. Sinis
d. Sciron
15. Which nickname indicates that he killed his victims by flinging them apart with bent pine trees?
a. Damastes
b. Polypemon
c. Pityocamptes
d. Corynetes
16. Who were pine tree guy’s parents?
a. Crentis /Coriangae b. Polypemon/Sylea
c. Hephaestus/Anticleia
d. Poseidon/Medusa
17. With which daughter of pine tree guy did Theseus have a son named Melanippus?
a. Sylea
b. Perigune
c. Aglope
d. Melanippe
18. Where did Theseus first encounter this daughter of pine tree guy?
a. in a flower bed
b. in a bed of wild asparagus
c. in a bed of iron
19. How did Theseus kill pine tree guy?
a. he tied him to bent pine trees and had them fling him apart
b. with his club
d. in a marriage bed
c. with his sword
d. he tore off his arm and beat him with it
20. What wild sow was terrorizing the countryside before Theseus killed it?
a. Caldedonian Sow
b. Crommyonian Sow c. Sow of Marathon
d. Cretan Sow
21. What was this sow’s name?
a. Polypemon
b. Sylea
c. Phaea
d. Astilbe
22. What was the meaning of that name?
a. big-tusk
b. gray
c. muddy
d. fearsome
23. Who were the parents of that sow?
a. Phorcus/Ceto
b. Typhon/Echidna
c. Asterion/Circe
d. Chrysaor/Callirrhoe
24. What son or Poseidon or Pelops asked passersby to wash his feet?
a. Sinis
b. Cercyon
c. Sciron
d. Polypemon
25. What would he do when they bent over to wash his feet?
a. give them a wedgie b. steal their goods
c. spit on them
d. kick them
26. Who was his sidekick?
a. a giant turtle
b. a giant toad
d. Silenus
c. Myropnous
27. Which king of Eleusis, a son of Poseidon, wrestled and killed his guests?
a. Cercyon
b. Phaea
c. Sinis
d. Sciron
28. Why did that king bury his daughter, Alope, alive?
a. she had a son by Hephaestus
c. she had a son by her grandfather
b. she had a son by Theseus
d. she had a son by her brother
29. Which of the following is NOT a name for the malicious monster/monstrous mortal who made his guests fit
into a special bed?
a. Asterion
b. Polypemon
c. Procrustes
d. Damastes
30. Who was the father of this hospitable fellow?
a. Hephaestus
b. Adrastus
c. Aegeus
31. How did Theseus kill him?
a. beat him with his club
b. chopped off his head
d. Poseidon
c. strangled him
d. wrestled him to death
32. Who first recognized Theseus as a son of Aegeus when Theseus arrived in Athens?
a. Aegeus
b. Medea
c. Argos
d. Medus
33. What task was Theseus asked to perform when he first arrived in Athens?
a. capture the Bull of Marathon
c. kill the Minotaur
b. kill the Hydra
d. beat Heracles in a competitive eating challenge
34. To whom does Theseus dedicate this labor?
a. Poseidon
b. Apollo
c. Zeus
d. Artemis
35. How does Theseus’ father recognize him?
a. by his sword
b. by his eyes
d. by his name
c. by his cloak
36. By what means was Theseus nearly killed by his step mother?
a. thrown from a cliff b. drinking poison
c. a poisoned cloak
d. with a magic spell
37. How many youths were sent to Crete each year as food for the Minotaur?
a. 14
b. 7
c. 21
d. 10
38. Who was the father of the Minotaur?
a. Minos
b. Poseidon
c. the Cretan Bull
d. Typhon
39. Who was the mother of the Minotaur?
a. Echidna
b. Pasiphae
c. Callirrhoe
d. Hera
40. What was the Minotaur’s name?
a. Phaea
b. Ladon
c. Asterion
d. Geryon
41. Whose death led to the imposition of the human tribute upon the Athenians?
a. Laius’
b. Aegeus’
c. Hippolytus’
d. Androgeos’
42. Whose crime brought about the birth of the Minotaur?
a. Minos’
b. Pasiphae’s
c. Althaea’s
d. Poseidon’s
43. Which of the following is NOT a blood relative of the Minotaur?
a. Pasiphae
b. Androgeos
c. Phaedra
d. Minos
44. Who fell in love with Theseus and helped him defeat the Minotaur?
a. Pasiphae
b. Ariadne
c. Phaedra
d. Androgeos
45. Where did Theseus abandon the helper who had given him a ball of string to find his way back out of the
Labyrinth after he killed the Minotaur?
a. Naxos
b. Delos
c. Crete
d. Lemnos
46. With which queen of the Amazons did Theseus have a son named Hippolytus?
a. Penthesilea
b. Protesilea
c. Althaea
d. Hippolyta
47. Which daughter of Minos did Theseus marry after he had gotten rid of the Amazon queen?
a. Ariadne
b. Phaedra
c. Aethra
d. Althaea
48. What punishment was leveled against Hippolytus because he worshipped Artemis rather than Aphrodite?
a. his dogs ate him
c. his step-mother fell in love with him
b. he was struck with a spear while hunting
d. he was turned into a woman
49. When Hippolytus was charged with a creepy crime, although it was untrue, Theseus prayed that Hippolytus
would be punished. Hippolytus died when that prayer was answered and a ______________ was sent by ______.
a. bull, Poseidon
b. plague, Apollo
c. lightning bolt, Zeus d. boar, Artemis
50. Theseus violated the law of hospitality when he and his friend Pirithous tried to abduct
a. Hera
b. Amphitrite
c. Aphrodite
d. Persephone