<p> Name: ______Study Guide for Greek Mythology Test</p><p>1. If someone calls you a narcissist, what are they saying? </p><p>2. Explain how this word (narcissist) is related to the story of Echo and Narcissus— who was he? What happened to him?</p><p>3. Why does Echo lose her voice? Instead of talking properly, she is able to only…</p><p>4. Why must Perseus capture the head of Medusa?</p><p>5. Medusa was a gorgon who had ______for hair and if anyone looked at her…</p><p>6. How did Perseus capture Medusa’s head; what were the strategies and tools he used? Who helped him?</p><p>7. A minotaur is half ______, half ______. Describe his temperament.</p><p>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. </p><p>10. What is the lesson/moral to be learned from Icarus?</p><p>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 ______. </p><p>12. Ultimately, this wasn’t as great a deal as King Midas had thought, why?</p><p>13. In relationship to Pandora and the box, Zeus was betting on the ______of women to unleash… </p><p>14. When people speak of a “Pandora’s box” they are alluding to unleashing______…without the ability to…______.</p><p>15. Why must Hercules perform the Twelve Labors? What is he hoping to right?</p><p>16. If something is referred to as a Herculean task, it means…______.</p><p>17. Explain how a Herculean task is a reference to the Twelve Myths of Hercules.</p><p>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…</p><p>20. Odysseus is also nearly destroyed by the Sirens who lure sailors in with their seductive ______.</p><p>21. These singers can be described as looking like… or…</p><p>22. How is Odysseus able to experience the sirens without being destroyed?</p><p>23. Zeus is the ruler of ______and ______.</p><p>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.</p><p>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… ______.</p>
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