Creation Myths Quiz

__________________ is the principal authority (author) for the creation myths, from his book Theogony.

• Hesiod

• Homer

• Virgil

• Ovid

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In the words of Milton: First there was ________________, the vast immeasurable ______________.

• Chaos, abyss

• Order, void

• Light, expanse

• Silence, chasm

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__________________ as a sea, dark, wasteful, wild.

• Chaos

• Order

• Calm

• Serenity

Black-winged ______________

• Night

• Eagle

• Hawk

• Falcon

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____________________ (the wheel-eyed)

• Cyclopes

• Minotaur

• Hydra

• Cerberus

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Cronus (_______________) was the lord of the universe along with his sister-queen, _______________.

• Saturn and Rhea

• Zeus and Hera

• Poseidon and Amphitrite

• Hades and Persephone

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Their son, ________________, rebelled against them after _____________ ate all of his children.

• Zeus

• Cronus

• Hades

• Poseidon

• Apollo

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The _______________ lived the back of the North Wind. Far to the south was the country of the _______________.

• Hyperboreans, Ethiopians

• Scythians, Egyptians

• Vikings, Romans

• Celts, Greeks

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According to another story, the _______________ themselves created man.

• gods

• animals

• humans

• aliens

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Zeus created _______________ after the Golden Age to punish _______________ for giving man fire. The first was named _______________, which means “the gift of all.”

• Pandora, Prometheus, Pandora

• Athena, Hercules, Athena

• Hera, Apollo, Hera

• Aphrodite, Hermes, Aphrodite

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