1. The speaking timber, or "Koraki" in Hellenic nautical terminology, operated like a compass. Who fitted the Koraki onto the prow of the Argo?
A)
Atalanta
B)
Argo
C)
Hera
D)
Jason
E) Zeus
2. If Jason perished striving to yoke the fire-breathing, brazen-footed bulls, the Argonauts were told they should …
A)
Do what they thought best
B)
Make other trials to gain the Fleece
C)
Turn the Argo and sail back to Greece
D)
All of the above.
3. Finish this sentence: The Symplegades were
A)
a narrow waterway between the Sea of Marmara and the Aegean Sea
B)
the power beneath a terrible whirlpool that destroyed vessels
C)
women of Mysia, where the soothsayer, Phineas, dwelt
D)
the edge of the known world
E) None of the above
4. Who was "slaughter personified
A)
Ares
B)
Alexander
C)
Cyrus
D)
Athena
E) Jason
5. Why did Helios send the Harpies, creatures with the body of a bird and the head of a woman, to prevent Phineas from eating?
A)
He was jealous that Phineas had been given the gift of prophecy
B)
He sought revenge against Apollo for favoring Phineas
C)
As punishment for revealing to humans the deliberations of the gods
D)
He was enraged that Phineas had chosen to live in darkness
E) All of the above
6. On Crete, the Argonauts encountered Talos, the bronze Titan, whom the god Hephaestus made as a guardian for the kingdom of Minos. Who saved the Argonauts by killing Talos?
A)
Herakles
B)
Scylla
C)
Medea
D)
Chiron the Centaur
E) The Phoenix
7. Evil spirits lived on either side of the Straits of Sicily. They would roll rocks down on passing ships and create terrible whirlpools, striking fear into the hearts of sailors and sucking their vessels to destruction. Who were these creatures?
A)
Scylla and Charibdis
B)
the Lemnian maidens
C)
Demeter and Persephone
D)
Cronos and Rhea
E) Zetes and Calais
8. Who told Jason that without the aid of Orpheus, the Argonauts would never be able to pass the Sirens?
A)
Medea, the sorceress
B)
Chiron the Centaur
C)
Phineas, the soothsayer
D)
Euphemus, the Argo’s helmsman
E) Bullfinch
9. After the return of the Golden Fleece to Iolcus, who took revenge and killed Jason’s family?
A)
King Aeetes
B)
Abysrtus
C)
King Pelias
D)
Medea
E) None of the above
10. Who wrote the definitive epic, Argonautica?
A)
Gaius Valerius Flaccus
B)
Euripides
C)
Apollonius of Rhodes
D)
Virgil
E) Homer