Name: ______Study Guide for Greek Mythology Test

1. If someone calls you a narcissist, what are they saying?

2. Explain how this word (narcissist) is related to the story of Echo and Narcissus— who was he? What happened to him?

3. Why does Echo lose her voice? Instead of talking properly, she is able to only…

4. Why must Perseus capture the head of Medusa?

5. Medusa was a gorgon who had ______for hair and if anyone looked at her…

6. How did Perseus capture Medusa’s head; what were the strategies and tools he used? Who helped him?

7. A minotaur is half ______, half ______. Describe his temperament.

8. What is the plight of the Minotaur, and how are Daedalus and Icarus involved/related to his story? 9. Icarus is known for ______too close to the ______, causing him to fall and drown.

10. What is the lesson/moral to be learned from Icarus?

11. King Midas could be described as ______, because he valued ______more than anything and when given the opportunity to ask for anything in the world he wanted, he asked to be able to turn anything he touched into ______.

12. Ultimately, this wasn’t as great a deal as King Midas had thought, why?

13. In relationship to Pandora and the box, Zeus was betting on the ______of women to unleash…

14. When people speak of a “Pandora’s box” they are alluding to unleashing______…without the ability to…______.

15. Why must Hercules perform the Twelve Labors? What is he hoping to right?

16. If something is referred to as a Herculean task, it means…______.

17. Explain how a Herculean task is a reference to the Twelve Myths of Hercules.

18. Odysseus is a great Greek warrior of the ______War. On his way home, the story of the Odyssey, he becomes trapped by a giant monster called a ______who is noted for having one big ______in the center of his forehead. 19. Odysseus gets away from Polyphemus by…

20. Odysseus is also nearly destroyed by the Sirens who lure sailors in with their seductive ______.

21. These singers can be described as looking like… or…

22. How is Odysseus able to experience the sirens without being destroyed?

23. Zeus is the ruler of ______and ______.

24. Hades is the ruler of the ______. It can be understood then why polite people sometimes refer to ______(a place and a Christian concept) as Hades.

25. When someone says, ”It is a Trojan horse”, what they really mean is not, “Let me tell you about an ancient war,” but “Be… ______.