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Why is one of Zeus' signals an eagle?
a) Eagles fetch his lightning bolts
b) Two eagles named Thought and Memory spy for him
c) He lives up on top of a mountain
d) He has a hooked nose.
Why is Hera's symbol the peacock?
a) She's proud and vain and dresses in pretty blue clothes
b) Peacock feathers have eye designs, symbolic of her follower Argus.
c) Peacocks mate for life and she stays married to Zeus despite his cheating
d) Peacocks ruffle their feathers symbolic of her legendary temper
How was Athena born?
a) The foam of the sea collected and she sprang out of a shell.
b) She was one of the original children swallowed and later thrown up by Uranus
c) Athena sprang out of Zeus' skull after giving him a massive headache.
d) In Athens
How was Hephaestus crippled?
a) His fiery chariot got out of control
b) After he invented the first trampoline.
c) He got in a fight with Ares because the God of War was cheating with Aphrodite
d) Hera threw him off Mount Olympus as a baby when she saw how ugly he was
What was the first thing Hermes stole as a young baby?
a) Apollo's cattle
b) A necklace off his mother's chest
c) One of Zeus' thunderbolts
d) A staff with gold snakes on either side of it.
What city was Poseidon the patron of?
a) Sparta
b) Troy
c) Athens
d) Delphi
What was Artemis the goddess of?
a) The hearth
b) The stars
c) The hunt
d) Wisdom
Who was Apollo the twin brother to?
a) Hestia
b) Athena
c) Freya
d) Artemis
What was Dionysus the god of?
a) Wine
b) Song
c) Archery
d) Strength
What was Hestia the goddess of?
a) Magic
b) Wine
c) The hearth
d) Owls
What was the name for the part of Hades where people were punished?
a) Hel
b) The Asphodel fields
c) The mourning fields
d) Tartarus
What river in the underworld made people forget everything after they drank from it?
a) Lethe
b) Styxx
c) Charon
d) Thames
Who saved Zeus after Hera drugged and bound him in a plot to rebel?
a) Hermes
b) A hundred armed giant
c) Athena
d) Hercules
How did Hephaestus get Aphrodite and Ares back for their affair?
a) He fought Ares (that's how he got crippled)
b) He had Hecate, the goddess of magic, curse them.
c) He made a net trap and set it in the bedroom
d) He sealed them up in Tartarus
Who did Hades kidnap when he became lonely in the underworld?
a) Demeter
b) Meg
c) Hera
d) Persephone
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