Mythology Quizzes

Mythology Quiz 1

1 How does Odysseus make Polyphemus fall asleep?
Gives him a sleeping potion

Gives him wine

Sings a song

Asks Hera for help
2 How do Odysseus's men escape Polyphemus's cave?
By sneaking out when Polyphemus is asleep

By wearing sheepskins

By walking out at night, in the dark

By hiding under the bellies of rams
3 Nemesis is the god of what?
Rivalry

Regret

Disgust

Anger
4 Why did the gods make Narcissus fall in love with his own reflection?
Hera was jealous of Echo

Narcissus thought himself better than the gods

Cupid's arrow hit him as he looked at himself

He never returned the affections of anyone else
5 Who does Hera punish for being an object of Zeus's desire?
Alcyone

Persephone

Echo

Psyche
6 Who did Apollo kill?
Otus

Adonis

Hyacinthus

Polyphemus
7 Who won the attention of both Aphrodite and Persephone?
Hermes

Hercules

Adonis

Narcissus
8 How did Adonis die?
Punishment from Zeus

Old age

Killed by his own father

Killed by a wild boar
9 Whom did Cupid himself fall in love with?
Niobe

Venus

Psyche

Thisbe
10 Who tried to ruin Psyche for being so beautiful?
Artemis

Venus

Europa

Hera
11 Psyche's father was told that his daughter would marry
Apollo

Cupid

No one

A serpent
12 Psyche gave Venus a golden fleece by
Collecting pieces of fleece from a thorny briar

Marrying Cupid

Begging Jason for help

Capturing it from King Etes
13 When Psyche opened the box Persephone gave her, what happened?
She found a magic seed

She unleashed all the negative thoughts and ideas of the world

She became queen of the underworld

She fell asleep
14 Who helped Psyche fill her flask from the River Styx?
An eagle

Persephone

A hawk

Hades
15 Where did Pyramus and Thisbe plan to meet upon their escape?
Ninus's tomb

In a cave

At the apothecary's store

Under a bridge
16 What became a symbol of Pyramus and Thisbe's tragic love?
The lily

Red wine

Mulberries

Pomegranates
17 How did Orpheus charm the creatures of the underworld?
With his good looks

With his pleas

With his poetry

With his music
18 How did Eurydice die?
Stung by a viper

Pricked by a poisonous needle

Ate a bad mushroom

Drowned
19 What was the condition upon which Orpheus could save Eurydice?
He could not look back at her as they left the underworld

He could never sing again

She would have to return for half of every year

She could not speak
20 How did Ceyx and Alcyone achieve immortality?
They return every spring in the form of flowers

They became gods on Mount Olympus

They became birds that still fly together

They became mulberries
21 Who told Alcyone her husband had died?
Hades

Ceyx

Morpheus

Juno
22 How did Ceyx die?
At Ninus's tomb

Jumping into the sea

In his sleep

At sea, in a storm
23 Who took pity on Pygmalion?
Cupid

Zeus

Venus

Galetea
24 Whom did Pygmalion marry?
Galetea

No one

Eurydice

A sculpture
25 What did Baucis and Philemon become when they died?
A conjoined tree

Raspberries

Birds

Flowers