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    1. The document contains 10 multiple choice questions about figures and stories from various mythologies such as Greek, Roman, Norse, and Japanese mythology. The questions cover topics like gods/goddesses and their domains, stories and characters from myths, and folkloric creatures. 2. Many of the questions can be answered by choosing the single correct option, with answers relating to details from myths about gods like Zeus, Apollo, Dionysus, and creatures like minotaurs and kappa. 3. The document serves to quiz one's knowledge of characters, plots and creatures from various world mythological traditions.

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    1. The document contains 10 multiple choice questions about figures and stories from various mythologies such as Greek, Roman, Norse, and Japanese mythology. The questions cover topics like gods/goddesses and their domains, stories and characters from myths, and folkloric creatures. 2. Many of the questions can be answered by choosing the single correct option, with answers relating to details from myths about gods like Zeus, Apollo, Dionysus, and creatures like minotaurs and kappa. 3. The document serves to quiz one's knowledge of characters, plots and creatures from various world mythological traditions.

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    1. The document contains 10 multiple choice questions about figures and stories from various mythologies such as Greek, Roman, Norse, and Japanese mythology. The questions cover topics like gods/goddesses and their domains, stories and characters from myths, and folkloric creatures. 2. Many of the questions can be answered by choosing the single correct option, with answers relating to details from myths about gods like Zeus, Apollo, Dionysus, and creatures like minotaurs and kappa. 3. The document serves to quiz one's knowledge of characters, plots and creatures from various world mythological traditions.

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    MED251 Lecture Notes 3

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    1. The document contains 10 multiple choice questions about figures and stories from various mythologies such as Greek, Roman, Norse, and Japanese mythology. The questions cover topics like gods/goddesses and their domains, stories and characters from myths, and folkloric creatures. 2. Many of the questions can be answered by choosing the single correct option, with answers relating to details from myths about gods like Zeus, Apollo, Dionysus, and creatures like minotaurs and kappa. 3. The document serves to quiz one's knowledge of characters, plots and creatures from various world mythological traditions.

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    1. According to Algonquian folklore, how does one transform into a Wendigo?

    a. Performing a ritual involving murder.


    b. Drinking the blood of many slain animals.
    c. !Participating in cannibalism.
    d. Excessive mutilation of animal corpses.

    2. Who was the Roman god of fire?


    a. Mercury
    b. !Vulcan
    c. Jupiter
    d. Apollo

    3. Neptune039;s greek name was...


    a. Zeus
    b. Ares
    c. Apollo
    d. !Poseidon

    4. According to Greek Mythology, Zeus can control lightning.


    a. False
    b. !True

    5. Which Greek amp; Roman god was known as the god of music, truth and prophecy,
    healing, the sun and light, plague, poetry, and more?
    a. !Apollo
    b. Artemis
    c. Athena
    d. Aphrodite

    6. Which figure from Greek mythology traveled to the underworld to return his wife
    Eurydice to the land of the living?
    a. Perseus
    b. Daedalus
    c. !Orpheus
    d. Hercules

    7. According to Greek Mythology, Atlas was an Olympian God.


    a. !False
    b. True

    8. What is the name of the Greek god of peaceful deaths?


    a. !Thanatos
    b. Tartarus
    c. Moros
    d. Hades

    9. What animal did Queen Pasipahe sleep with before she gave birth to the Minotaur
    in Greek Mythology?
    a. Ox
    b. Pig
    c. Horse
    d. !Bull

    10. Who is a minor god that is protector and creator of various arts, such as
    cheese making and bee keeping.
    a. !Aristaeus
    b. Autonoe
    c. Cephisso
    d. Carme

    1. In Norse mythology, Thor once dressed as a woman.


    a. !True
    b. False

    2. Which of the following Mesopotamian mythological figures was NOT a deity?


    a. Enlil
    b. Enkimdu
    c. !Enkidu
    d. Enki

    3. According to Greek Mythology, Zeus can control lightning.


    a. !True
    b. False

    4. According to Norse mythology, Loki is a mother.


    a. !True
    b. False

    5. The Japanese god Izanagi successfully returned his wife Izanami from the
    Underworld.
    a. True
    b. !False

    6. In Norse mythology, what is the name of the serpent which eats the roots of the
    ash tree Yggdrasil?
    a. Odin
    b. Ymir
    c. !Nidhogg
    d. Bragi

    7. Nidhogg is a mythical creature from what mythology?


    a. Greek
    b. Hindu
    c. Egyptian
    d. !Norse

    8. In Greek mythology, who is the god of wine?


    a. Demeter
    b. Hephaestus
    c. !Dionysus
    d. Apollo

    9. According to Japanese folklore, what is the favorite food of the Kappa.


    a. !Cucumbers
    b. Soba
    c. Nasu
    d. Kabocha

    10. Which greek godgoddess tossed a golden apple with the words quot;for the
    fairestquot; into the middle of the feast of the gods?
    a. Artemis
    b. Ares
    c. Hades
    d. !Eris

    1. What was the punishment for Sysiphus039;s craftiness?


    a. Standing in a lake filled with
    water he could not drink.
    b. Tied to a boulder for eternity,
    being pecked by birds.
    c. To fell a tree that regenerated
    after every axe swing.
    d. !Cursed to roll a boulder up a
    hill for eternity.

    2. In Norse mythology, Thor once dressed as a woman.


    a. !True
    b. False

    3. Who in Greek mythology, who led the Argonauts in search of the Golden Fleece?
    a. Daedalus
    b. !Jason
    c. Odysseus
    d. Castor

    4. This Greek goddess039;s name was chosen for the dwarf planet responsible for
    discord on Pluto039;s classification amongst astronomers.
    a. Dysnomia
    b. Charon
    c. Ceres
    d. !Eris

    5. According to Greek Mythology, Zeus can control lightning.


    a. False
    b. !True

    6. In Greek mythology, who is the god of wine?


    a. Apollo
    b. Demeter
    c. Hephaestus
    d. !Dionysus

    7. A minotaur is half human half what?


    a. Eagle
    b. Cow
    c. Horse
    d. !Bull

    8. Which of these mythological creatures is said to be halfman and halfhorse?


    a. !Centaur
    b. Minotaur
    c. Gorgon
    d. Pegasus

    9. What mythology did the god quot;Apolloquot; come from?


    a. Greek and Chinese
    b. Roman and Spanish
    c. Greek, Roman and Norse
    d. !Greek and Roman

    10. According to Japanese folklore, what is the favorite food of the Kappa.
    a. Soba
    b. Kabocha
    c. Nasu
    d. !Cucumbers

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