Humanities 115 Quiz Answers

Instruction on sextual pleasure

Poems in Sanskrit are collected in Sutra, which means "thread." The best known in the west is the Kama Sutra, which contains:

The Metamorphosis of Ovid

1. Numerous writers have told the Greek myths at different times in history. One Roman writer translated many myths into Latin in a single work. It is called:

Daughter of a king

10. Both Odysseus and Achilles attempt to avoid fighting in the Trojan War. Achilles' mother hides her son by disguising him as a:

Semitic

11. There is a substantial record of Hebrew mythology because that culture created the oldest written language still in use today. The basis of Hebrew is a language group called:

Armor of achilles

12. In The Iliad, the war is going badly for the Greeks because Achilles refuses to fight. His best friend Patroclus encourages the Greek soldiers by entering the battle wearing the:

Eight Days

13. According to Hebrew mythology, Yahweh commands Abram to circumcise all males in his household, including boys at the age of:

Scipio

14. The Roman Republic grew strong by defeating the Carthaginians and taking control of the Mediterranean. The Roman general who ended the Punic Wars was:

All who must die must be buried

15. In The Iliad, Achilles kills Hector and drags his naked body behind his chariot. This is a violation of one of Zeus's highest laws, which is:

A tribe of people

16. According to Hebrew mythology, Yahweh tests Abraham by asking him to sacrifice his son Isaac. According to Islamic mythology, Allah asks Abraham to sacrifice Ishmael. The Islamic sacrifice is stopped by:

A man

17. Before the play Oedipus Rex begins, Oedipus becomes King of Thebes by answering the riddle of the Sphinx: "What goes on four legs in the morning, two in the day, and three at night?" What is the answer?

Atlas

18. One of the Twelve Titans of Greek mythology is:

Dealing harshly with her

19. In The Book of Genesis Chapter 16, Sarai encourages Abraham to "go into my maid; that I may obtain children by her." When her maid Hagar becomes pregnant, Sarai is "despised in her eyes." Sarai reacts by:

The sexual urge

2. The primal elements of Greek mythology include Gaia, the earth, Tartarus, the underworld, and Eros, which is:

Falls in love with him

20. In The Aeneid, Aeneas is a prince of Troy who escapes the burning of the city. He finds refuge in Carthage, because Queen Dido:

A blind prophet

21. In the play Oedipus Rex, Oedipus first learns that he is was the man who murdered King Laius from Tiresias. Tiresias is:

Head of Zeus

22. The goddess Athena was born in an unusual way, wearing full armor and springing up fully-grown from:

Messiah

23. According to Christian mythology, Jesus is "Christos," which means "savior," and a reliever of suffering from Hebrew mythology called the:

The oracle of Delphi

24. The play Oedipus Rex begins with a plague raging through the city of Thebes. King Oedipus has sent Creon, the queen's brother, to learn how the plague can be cured. Creon returns with the solution to the problem, given to him by whom?

Honey cakes topped with fruit

25. In The Aeneid of Virgil, the harpy predicts that Aeneas will not triumph until he has become so hungry he "eats his tables." What do the "tables" turn out to be?

String and shoot a bow

26. In The Ramayana, Rama appears before King Janaka, performs a task, and the King gives him the beautiful Princess Sita as his bride. What is that task?

Oracle bones

27. The oldest writing in China is inscribed on an object, which is then thrown into a fire. The object cracks, and the cracks are used to predict the future. They are called:

Deceptive

28. Serpents appear in the mythology of many cultures. Because they shed their skin, they often represent healing or rebirth. Because many live in water, they are thought to be:

Frost giants

29. Like the Cyclops and the Hundred-Handed giants of Greek mythology, other cultures have stories of terrible monsters created before the gods were born. In Norse mythology, they were:

Water and Darkness

3. The two primal elements that exist at the beginning of the Hebrew creation myth are:

Pa'n Ku

30. The Chinese creation myth begins with an egg. Inside is chaos, from which a living being forms. He breaks out of the egg to separate the light from darkness. His name is:

Invites

31. In Japanese mythology, the first two beings are a man, Inzanagi, whose name means "He who invites," and Inzanami, whose name means "she who..."

Mistletoe

32. In Norse mythology, Balder dreams of Nfelheim, and his mother makes everything in creation promise to never harm him. She neglects to ask one thing, and Loki fashions spear from it that kills Balder. The one thing that can kill Balder is:

Rig Veda

33. The oldest writing in India is the Vedas. They are short poems of faith written by many authors over centuries. They were complied by later writers, each collection unique to that poet. A collection of Vedas is called:

Leech baby

34. In Japanese mythology, the first two humans, Inzanagi and Inzanami have a child. They set him adrift on the waters because he was born:

Lao Tzu

35. China's oldest philosophy is Tao Ti Ching, which explains how the forces of the universe work. One example is: "Thirty spokes will converge in the hub of a wheel, but the use of the cart will depend upon the part of the hub that is void." The author of this work is:

Wergild

36. Norse social structure included clans whose members were either blood relatives or had married in. The clan chief owed an obligation to the family of slain warriors, which was often paid in cattle or:

Dropping her jewels

37. In The Ramayana, the demon king Ravana abducts the Princess Sita, and carries her away in a flying chariot. She manages to alert a tribe of monkeys by:

Torii

38. Shintoism is the ancient religion of Japan. There is no founder and no central text. A simple gate marks the boundary between the sacred and profane, defining a holy place. It is called a:

Shut herself in a cave

39. In Japanese mythology, Amaterasu is the goddess of the sun, married to the moon, and sister of the storm god. When the storm god visits her, he causes havoc in her life. When Amaterasu can take no more, she:

Firstborn

4. In Islamic mythology, Hagar is considered equal to Sarah because the faith allows polygamy. Hagar's son Ishmael is considered superior to Isaac, however, because he is:

Valhalla

40. In Norse mythology, goddesses riding winged horses carry heroes who died bravely in battle to Asgard. After crossing a rainbow bridge, they feast on boar and wait for the end of the world. The palace where they feast is called:

Hel

42. In Norse mythology, Yggdrasil is a giant ash tree whose branches and roots hold the Nine Worlds. Among them is Asgard, home of the gods, Midgard, home of humans, and Nifelheim, home of:

Blue skin

43. Hinduism features a trinity of gods called "trimurti." It includes the creator Brahma, shown in artworks with multiple faces. Shiva the destroyer has four arms. Vishnu the preserver has:

Avatar

44. In Hindu mythology, the god Vishnu appears on earth many times, as a man, as a crocodile, and even as a man-lion. In one epic, he appears as Krishna to deliver a discourse on life to a young soldier. The appearance of a god in physical form is called:

Hydra

45. In The Ramayana, Rama and the demon king Ravanna fight one-on-one. Rama finds that every time he cuts off one of Ravanna's many heads another grows back in its place. This is similar to the figure in Greek mythology:

A dream

46. The Japanese island of Hokkaido has its own mythology, the Kotan Utunnai. It is told in an unusual way: in first person, without a named narrator, and the events unfold as if in:

Rope

47. In Chinese mythology, the Great Goddess Nu Kua creates humans out of clay. Because it takes too long to fashion each one by hand, she finds something that allows her to create humans faster by spinning them off. The hand-made ones are highborn, the others are common. The thing she uses to spin them off is a:

Bathing in water

48. Shintoism is the ancient religion of Japan. There are two rituals of purification in Shintoism. One involves burning a sacrifice of rice, Saki, fruit or tree branches. The other involves:

Men see in dream

49. In the Chinese myth Chi-Li Slays the Serpent, a giant snake devours a young girl once a year. The villagers know he is ready to feed because

The Theogeny

5. Greek mythology begins with Homer, who wrote The Iliad, The Odysseyand 33 Homeric Hymns. Hesiod, another early writer, created a genealogy of the gods called:

Robes, sword and helmet

50. In the Kotan Utannai of Hokkaido, the hero grows up in a hut with a woman he thinks is his older sister. She eventually tells him that she rescued him as a baby, raised him as her own, but he is from another family. For proof, she gives him his father's:

Pantheon

51. Ancient religions recognized many gods, and made stories about them to explain natural phenomenon. A list of gods in an ancient culture is called a:

Civil Law

52. Humans created written language as symbols that represented ideas. Some of the earliest writing was rules that everyone agreed to live by, known as:

Between rivers

53. The first cities were built near flood plains, which provided water for agriculture. The earliest was Mesopotamia, on the Tigris and Euphrates. The name "Mesopotamia" is Greek, meaning:

Archetype

54. Tiamat was the Mother Goddess of Babylonian mythology. Because the Mother Goddess appears in the mythologies of many cultures, she is considered an:

Western Civilization

55. Civilization is a state of human existence in which people live together for mutual benefit. One civilization began in ancient Greece, was copied and improved by ancient Rome, and is the foundation of our own civilization. It is called:

All at once, over five days

56. In Egyptian mythology Nut, goddess of the sky, is the Mother Goddess. Her husband Re, and her lovers Geb and Thoth, all impregnate her. She gives birth to the gods:

Sumerian

57. The Epic of Gilgamesh has been written in many languages, and published in many versions, for over three thousand years. The first Gilgamesh stories were written in:

Scorpion men

58. Gilgamesh undertakes a quest to find immortality. He travels to Mount Mashu, where he finds the entrance to another world guarded by:

The old testament

59. Sin-Leqi-Unimmi, a Babylonian priest, compiled disconnected stories of Gilgamesh into a single epic sometime between 1,600 and 1,000 BCE. This corresponds with documents written by another culture, which eventually became:

Stabs out his own eyes

6. In the play Oedipus Rex, when King Oedipus learns that his wife has hanged herself, he is consumed by grief and humiliation. What does he do?

The sacred drum

60. At the beginning of his epic, Gilgamesh is not a wise ruler. He separates husbands from wives, mothers from daughters and does as he pleases with:

The cedar forest

61. After becoming friends with the king, Enkidu feels useless. Gilgamesh proposes they undertake a journey to kill Humbaba, a monster who lives in:

A combination of historical and mythological elements

62. An epic poem consists of three elements: great length, a central hero and:

Hair

63. The Mother Goddess makes a man out of clay, Enkidu. He lives in the wilderness, runs with the gazelles and is covered with:

Mummu, the mist

64. In early cultures, the gods are born of primal elements like earth, water or sky. In Babylonian mythology they were Apsu the sweet water, Tiamat the salt water and:

His mother, Nissan

65. Before the arrival of Enkidu into the city, Gilgamesh has two dreams. In one, a star falls at his feet and in the other he discovers a strangely shaped axe. These dreams are interpreted as omens of Enkidu by:

Lying in a wooden box

66. Osiris is the oldest child of Nut, born as a man. He becomes the god of fertility and ruler of the underworld after his brother Set tricks him into:

Naturally mummified bodies

67. Egypt is a civilization based on the Nile River, which flooded each year at the same time, with the same amount of water. This regularity led to the belief that death was not an end, but another phase of life. This idea was supported by the fact that the desert:

Hammurabi

68. The first laws were written in cuneiform on black stone markers, and allowed the king to rule in absentia, that is, while he was not present in the city. This king was:

Monotheism

69. While the civilizations of Egypt and Mesopotamia worshipped many gods, the Abrahamic faiths worshipped only one god. The belief in a single god is called

She ate pomegranate seeds

7. Winter happens every year because the earth goddess Demeter is sad that her daughter Persephone must live with her husband Hades. Persephone lives in the underworld for one season because:

She abuses her lovers

70. The goddess Ishtar proposes that Gilgamesh marry her, but he refuses because:

Bindery

71. One of the visual arts is painting, in which the artist creates form using pigment and surface. Frequently there must be a third substance, like the oil in oil paint. That third substance is called:

The Sumerian list

72. There was a historical King Gilgamesh, who ruled Uruk between 2,700 and 2,500 BCE. This is verified by two sources: his name stamped on bricks, and carved on the:

The sky and the earth

73. In Babylonian mythology, Marduk was the grandson of Tiamat and rallied the gods to rebel against her. When they had defeated Tiamat, Marduk tore her body in half and used it to create:

Ancient Greek

74. The ability to read Egyptian hieroglyphics was lost for centuries. The Rosetta Stone allowed scholars to translate hieroglyphics because it included the same information in:

The snake Sheds its skin

75. Gilgamesh finds a plant that gives eternal youth, which is stolen by a snake. He knows the snake will be young forever because:

Virgil doesn't say

8. In The Aeneid, a priest named Laocoon suspects the Trojan Horse is a trick, saying "I fear the Greeks even when they are bearing gifts." Serpents strangle Laocoon and his two sons, sent by:

A river which he diverted

9. One of the labors of Heracles was to clean the Augean stables. He accomplishes this in one day with help from: