The Olympian Gods and Goddesses

The child Rhea saved grew up to be __________

• Heracles

• Zeus

• Poseidon

• Cronus

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CCSS.RL.5.1

Gaeas' (Mother Earth) children with one eye were called _______.

• Cyclopes

• Titans

• Tartarus

• Typhons

The queen of the gods was _____________.

• Persephone

• Hestia

• Hera

• Olympus

The god who preferred to stay in the underworld and never went to Olympus.

• Zeus's eldest brother

• the lord of the dead

• Hades

• All of the above

Hephaestus, the god of smiths and fire, was a skilled craftsman who _______________.

• created thrones for the gods to rest

• made jewelry for Aphrodite

• made the weapons for the gods

• all of the above

The only goddess to have neither a mother nor father was ____________.

• Cynthera

• Aphrodite

• Athena

• Artemis

Ares was ___________.

• the god of war

• the half brother of goddess Athena

• admired by Aphrodite

• all of the above

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CCSS.RI.5.3

The only Olympian god that has a mortal for a mother is _____________.

• Hermes

• Dionysus

• Hestia

• Hephaestus

Persephone was the daughter of Demeter, the goddess of the harvest. Demeter bargained with the gods to get her daughter back half of the year. This myth explains ________.

• the seasons

• childbirth

• change from day to night

• the daily weather in Greece

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CCSS.RL.5.2

Poseidon was the ruler of ____________.

• the sea

• Hades

• Tartarus

• the underworld