神话复习题

5. What was the name of Heracles' stepfather? (难度系数2.0) A. Zeus B. Hades C. Amphitryon D. Donatello 10. What was Artemis the goddess of? (难度系数1.0) A. Wearing fur B. Hunting C. The dawn D. The night

15. Apollo, god of light, music and much more, once fell in love with a beautiful maiden. She refused him and fled, turning into a laurel tree. This nymph's name was: (难度系数1.0) A. Rosemary B. Daphne C. Myrtle D. Olivia

20. Helios (Sun) and Eos (Dawn) were siblings of the goddess of the moon. She was named: (难度系数2.0) A. Selinus B. Selene C. Celine D. Dion 25. Jason and the Argonauts left Greece and went on a Quest for: (难度系数1.0) A. beer B. a decent meal C. the Golden Fleece D. an outlet mall 30. The hero Heracles (Hercules) performed: (难度系数1.0) A. 12 Labors B. 12 Deliveries C. 12 Operas D. 12 times a day 35. Who is the queen of Gods? (难度系数1.0) A. Aphrodite B. Athena C. Hera D. Posiden 40. What is Hestia the Goddess of? (难度系数1.0) A. Goddess of the sea C. Home and hearth(furnace) B. Goddess of the Universe D. Messenger of the Gods 45. Poseidon was the God of (难度系数0.8) A Love B the Sea C Athens D the Forest E Wealth 50. Who has nothing to do with Orion? (难度系数1.0) A Eris B Merope C Eos

D Oinopion E Artemis

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神话试题库建设第二部分内容：基础填空部分 A. 图片填空：

5. The bright figure was ________, one of the boys was ___________. _____ loved him, but the west wind ________also loved him. So once when they were playing ____________, __________caused it to bounce or change the course, thus killing the boy. ___________caused a flower _________to grow out of his blood, or tainted with his blood.

_______________________________________________. The punishment of this girl is brought about by

10. The two figures in the picture is __________and ___________. And the girl fell sleep because ________________. She had altogether fulfilled ________tasks. The oracle concerning her marriage is 15. In female one in the picture, __________, the daughter of King Minos of ________, assisted _______ in his quest to slay the _________, and then fled with him aboard his ship. However, when they landed on the island of _________, Theseus __________ her as she was sleeping. It was here that the god __________ discovered her and made her __________. Some say that she was later slain by Artemis, or else granted immortality. In another account, Ariadne's bridal with Dionysos occurred several generations

_____________.

before, when the god was still wandering the earth introducing his cult.

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20. As Oedipus was traveling by horse to ___________, he came to a crossroads where he met a chariot, which, unbeknownst to him, was driven by ___________, his true father. A dispute arose over right of way, and the outcome was that Oedipus____________ Laius. Continuing his journey, Oedipus encountered the ___________, who stopped any traveler and asked him a riddle that none had yet been able to solve. If the traveler failed, he was eaten by the monster. The riddle was “_______________________________________\" The answer was “_____________.\" Oedipus solved the riddle, and the ______________ threw herself to her death. The gratitude of the Thebans led them to appoint Oedipus as their king. Oedipus was also given the widow _____________ (who was also his mother) as his wife.

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25. Pygamalion was a women-____________, he preferred his statue to any real maiden. Finally he prayed to ___________, who granted his wish, and his statue _________came to real life.

30. As predicted by __________ with his dying breath, Achilles was thereafter killed by ___________—either by an arrow (to the heel according to Statius), or in an older version by a knife to the back while visiting __________, a princess of Troy. In some versions, the god __________ guided _________' arrow.

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35. In one version of the myth,_____________ was a priestess of Zeus, and on one occasion was observed by Zeus as she slaughtered a bull at his altar and afterwards swam in the river Asopus to cleanse herself of the blood. Flying over the scene in the guise of an eagle, Zeus fell in love with Semele and afterwards repeatedly visited her secretly. Zeus' wife, Hera, a goddess jealous of usurpers, discovered his affair with Semele when she later became pregnant. Appearing as an old crone, Hera ____________Semele, who confided in her that her lover was actually Zeus. Hera pretended not to believe her, and planted seeds of ____________ in Semele's mind. Curious, Semele demanded of Zeus that he_______________________ as proof of his godhood. Though Zeus begged her not to ask this, she persisted and he agreed. Mortals, however, cannot look upon Zeus without dying, and she perished, ________________. Zeus rescued the fetal _____________, however, by sewing him into his thigh. A few months later, Dionysus was born. This leads to his being called \"the twice-born\".

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神话试题库建设第三部分内容： 连线题

1. Match the monsters and their killers. 1) Chimera 2) Medusa 3) Minotaur 4) Hydra 5) Sphinx

2. Match the gods and their mates. 1) Hades 2) Poseidon 3) Zeus 4) Apollo 5) Hephaestus 6) Uranus 7) Bucchus

3. Match the heroes and their adventures. 1) Oedipus 2) Jason 3) Perseus 4) Theseus 5) Heracles 6) Odysseus 7) Meleager

4. Match the the words with their meanings. 1) Plutonian 2) Stygian 3) Odysseay

4) Heculean’s Task 5) Hermetic 6) panic 7) arachnid 8) echo

9) Narcissist 10) Adonis

11) Midas Touch 12) hypnotic 13) siren 14) volcano 15) tantalize

a) Oedipus b) Bellerophon c) Perseus d) Heracles e) Theseus a) Hera b) None c) Ariadne d) Gaia

e) Amphitrite f) Aphrodite g) Persephone

a) killing of Calydonian Boar b) killing of Sphinx

c) on board the Argo for the Golden Fleece d) twelve great labors e) avenging his wife f) killing of Medusa

g)

slew the wrongdoers and killing the Minotaur

a) a handsome young man

b) a magic stroke that can make things better or more

valuable

c) pertain to sleep, sleep producing

d) someone who exercises excessive love for himself e) airtight

f) pertain to the underworld g) great unreasonable fear h) a difficult chore or mission i) a long and hard journey j) a warning sound

k) to lure and tempt, but usually something you can

not have l) very black

m) the legendary place for the god of fire n) rebouncement of sound

o) any species of insects with eight or more legs

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5. Match the events and their places. 1) Labyrinth of Crete, palce of knossus 2) Delphi 3) Troy 4) Samos 5) Delos 6) Olympus

7) Marathonian plateau 8) Attic 9) Athens

6. Match the names and their transformations. 1) Aradne 2) Atalanta 3) Callisto 4) Actaeon 5) Scylla

6) Lycian peasants 7) greedy sailors

8) Baucis and his wife 9) Pyramus and Thisbe 10) Hoopoe

7. Match the gods/goddesses and their objects. 1) Zeus 2) Hera 3) Poseidon 4) Hades 5) Ceres 6) Athena 7) Aphrodite 8) Hermes 9) Hephaestus 10) Ares 11) Apollo 12) Dionysus 13) Hestia

a) the place where the Greeks won a crutial war

against Persian invaders b) Great Dionysia

c) the terrain where Thesseus killed the bandits d) the place where Trojan War was fought e) where Phobus sprang

f) the wedding place of Hera and Zeus g) shrine of Apollo h) killing of Minotaur

i) the dwelling place of gods and goddesses

a) Tereus

b) first a monster with the body of six dogs and then a

dangerous rock c) frogs

d) a she-bear

e) their blood turned the mulberry fruit red f) spider g) a stag h) a lioness i) an oak tree j) dolphins a) sacred hearth

b) pluming helmet, chariot, armor c) helmet of invisibility d) thunderbolt, aegis

e) petasus, talaria, caduceus, winged sandals f) lyre, laurel wreath

g) bow, arrows, sacred woods h) aegis, armor, owls i) grain, harvest, fertility j) anvil and fire

k) scepter, diadem, crown, rainbow l) wine cone, cup

m)

trident, chariot drawn by sea horses

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8. Match the gods/goddesses/heroes with their deeds. (multiple) 1) Apollo 2) Hercules 3) Athena 4) Atalanta 5) Hellen 6) Odysseus 7) Hera 8) Demeter 9) Medusa 10) Jason 11) Phaeton 12) Cadmus 13) Midas

a) the origin of peacock’s tail b) the great gold lover c) the rape in Athena’s Temple d) the rescue of Alcestis e) the metamorphosis of lioness f) Odyssey g) the myth about the origin of spiders h) the most beautiful maiden i) the Trojan Horse j) his father was restored to youth by his wife k) he changed his daughter into gold l) Twelve Labors m) the petrifying head n) the inventor of Phoenician letters o) The Golden Fleece p) the swift footed beauty q) the blackness of the Ethiopians r) the Trojan War s) Milky Way t) the one whose ears were those of an ass u) the myth of the origin of the four seasons 8

神话试题库建设第四部分内容： 问答题

1. How can we approach a myth? 2. Describe the life of Hera and Zeus.

3. Why was Dionysus called the twice-born god?

4. Who were Dionysus’ followers? What kind of people were they? 5. Why was Aphrodite married off to the ugliest god? 6. Why did Theseus punish his son Hippolytus?

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