POLS202 Exam 9

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

a. Drinking the blood of many slain


animals.
b. Excessive mutilation of animal
corpses.
c. Performing a ritual involving
murder.
d. !Participating in cannibalism.

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

3. 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. Artemis
b. Aphrodite
c. !Apollo
d. Athena

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

5. Nidhogg is a mythical creature from what mythology?


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

6. The Roman god quot;Jupiterquot; was first known as quot;Zeusquot; to the Greeks.
a. !True
b. False

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


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

8. Janus was the Roman god of doorways and passageways.


a. !True
b. False

9. What immense structure is referred to in Norse Mythology as the Yggdrasil.


a. Mountain
b. !Tree
c. Temple
d. Castle

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

1. Who was the Roman god of fire?


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

2. 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. Artemis
b. !Apollo
c. Aphrodite
d. Athena

3. The greek god Poseidon was the god of what?


a. Fire
b. War
c. !The Sea
d. Sun

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


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

5. Who is the Egyptian god of reproduction and lettuce?


a. Mut
b. Menu
c. Meret
d. !Min

6. A minotaur is half human half what?


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

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


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

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


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

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

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. Carme
d. Cephisso

1. Talos, the mythical giant bronze man, was the protector of which island?
a. Sicily
b. !Crete
c. Sardinia
d. Cyprus

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


a. False
b. !True

3. In Greek mythology, Hera is the goddess of harvest.


a. True
b. !False

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


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

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


a. !False
b. True

6. What is the name of the Greek god of blacksmiths?


a. Vulcan
b. Artagatus
c. Dyntos
d. !Hephaestus

7. According to the Egyptian Myth of Osiris, who murdered Osiris?


a. Ra
b. Anhur
c. Horus
d. !Set

8. In African mythology, Anansi is a trickster and storyteller who takes the shape
of which animal?
a. !Spider
b. Wild dog
c. Monkey
d. Crocodile

9. Which Norse God has a horse named Sleipnir?


a. Frigg
b. !Odin
c. Thor
d. Balder

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. !Eris
c. Hades
d. Ares

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