What is a story that features animals and ALWAYS has a moral?
What is a Fable
100
Who is the ruler of the Gods and is associated with the lightning bolt?
Who is Zeus
100
Which hero stars in a Disney animated movie and defeated the Hydra?
Who is Hercules
100
What term means the time period or location where a story takes place?
What is setting
100
Whose Roman name is Apollo?
Who is Apollo
200
Which story has magical creatures in it and typically results in the underdog attaining a happy ending?
What is a Fairy Tale?
200
Who is the Goddess of beauty and the wife of Hephaestus?
Who is Aphrodite
200
Which hero enters a labyrinth and fights the Minotaur?
Who is Theseus
200
What is a good definition for the word "theme?"
What is the central idea or message in literature that cannot be summed up in one word.
200
Whose Roman name is Jupiter?
Who is Zeus
300
What is a story that was written when history was recorded and has some truth in it?
What is a Legend
300
Who is the Goddess of the hunt and the moon?
Who is Artemis
300
Which hero cuts off Medusa's head?
Who is Perseus
300
Who is the only God to be flawed or deformed?
Who is Hephaestus
300
Whose Roman name is Mercury?
Who is Hermes
400
This type of story tries to explain how the world works, including how the earth and people were created or how certain animals go their names.
What is a Myth
400
Which God plays the lyre and can heal people?
Who is Apollo
400
Which hero marries a witch and finds the Golden Fleece?
Who is Jason
400
Which God is the only one to have one mortal/human parent?
Who is Dionysus
400
Whose Roman name is Juno?
Who is Hera
500
Give two examples of a legend, fable, and fairy tale.
What is
Legend- King Arthur and Robin Hood
Fable- The Tortoise and the Hare and The Fox and the Grapes Fairy Tale- Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid
500
Who is the Goddess of the hearth?
Who is Hestia
500
Which hero and titan created humans from clay?
What is Prometheus
500
What are three examples between creation myths around the world?
What is 1. The Gods make Earth
2. People are made from clay
3. Idea of a flood to destroy a flawed race of humans