Multiple Choice: choose one answer:
1) What was born from the union of the Cretan bull and Minos’s wife?
Minotaur Medusa Keto Gollum
2) What was the name of the Amazon queen whose girdle Herakles took in battle?
Omphale Hesione Hippolyte Antiope
3) What type of animal guarded the apples of the Hesperides?
dog snake lion bear
4) What triple-bodied monster does Herakles defeat?
Typhon Chrysaor Geryon Charon
5) The Pillars of Herakles were located at the _________________ shores of the Mediterranean Sea.
northern western southern eastern
6) Who helped Herakles fetch the apples of the Hesperides?
Iolaos Atlas Nessos Hera
7) For the last of his twelve labors, Herakles had to:
kill Kerberos answer a riddle posed by Kerberos
beat Kerberos in a footrace drag Kerberos from the Underworld
8) After killing Eurytos and his sons, Herakles carried off the beautiful ________ as his concubine.
Penthiseleia Iole Andromeda Helen
9) Who wrote Oedipus the King?
Homer Ovid Aristotle Sophocles
10) Oedipus ruled at
Athens Corinth Thebes Troy
11) Who is the father of Achilles?
Zeus Herakles Peleus Ares
12) Before being taken to Troy, Helen lived in the city of
Rome Sparta Athens Thebes
13) Who was reluctant to join the Greek expedition to Troy and faked insanity in order not to leave his family?
Odysseus Achilles Diomedes Patroklos
14) Who carried the bow of Herakles, without the help of which Troy could not fall?
Patroklos Achilles Telephos Philoktetes
15) Who does Achilles heal by applying the shavings from his spear?
Telephos Memnon Polydoros Rhesos
16) The ­­­______________ of Achilles reverberates through the whole work of Homer's Iliad.
compassion help anger sadness