How Zeus & Hermes Went Visiting Quiz

1. Why did Zeus chose to take a trek and observe the humans?
 
❏ He wanted to party with them  
❏ He thought he should see how humans lived 
❏ He went to inspect and punish the evil humans 
❏ He went to look for more girlfriends  
  
2. If ⅔ of the humans he visited in disguise were evil what would he do?

❏ He would murder the entire human race 

❏ He would murder the evil people  
❏ He would turn everyone into a god 
❏ He would turn them all to the slaves of the gods  

3. Who did he visit first?

❏ King Theseus of Athens 

❏ Daedalus and Icarus   
❏ Alcmene and Hercules  
❏ King Lycaon of Arcadia 

4. What did Zeus do/give to the first human he visited? Why?

❏ He ate him and all of his children  
Because the food didn’t taste as good as nectar and ambrosia  
❏ He turned him into a wolf along with his offspring as his pack  
Because he tried to trick zeus into eating human flesh 
❏ He turned lycaon into the god of good food  
Because he was such a good cook 
❏ He gave him the island of crete as a thank you gift 
Because he gave Zeus his finest wine and made Zeus very drunk 
5. Who did he visit second?
 
❏ The centaur Chiron  
❏ Perseus and Andromeda 
❏ Some of Dionysus’ crazy followers 
❏ Philemon and Baucis 
 
6. Were they deemed good or evil?
 
❏ Good 
❏ Evil 
❏ Nothing, Zeus fell asleep before he chose and forgot about it 
 
7. Thirdly, they visited Pyrrha and her husband ​ ​?
 
❏ Prometheus 
❏ Aegeus 
❏ Epimetheus 
❏ Deucalion   
 
8. Who (in Greek form) helped zeus with the flood that killed all but
one couple?

❏ Poseidon 
❏ Neptune 
❏ Pluto 
❏ Athena 
 
9. How did the Pyrrha & her husband get the earth repopulated?
❏ Pyrrha’s husband dug up her mom’s grave and people crawled out 
❏ The tossed stones behind their backs while looking at the ground 
❏ They killed each other and from their blood people came out 
❏ The made people out of clay again and became gods
10. Given command to produce animals, what else did Gaia recreate?
 
❏ Tartarus  
❏ Typhon 
❏ Giants 
❏ Typhon and the giants 
 
 

Answers
1. He went to inspect and punish the evil humans 
2. He would murder the entire human race 
3. King Lycaon of Arcadia 
4. He turned him into a wolf along with his offspring as his pack  
Because he tried to trick zeus into eating human flesh 
5. Philemon and Baucis 
6. Evil 
7. Deucalion 
8. Poseidon 
9. The tossed stones behind their backs while looking at the ground 
10. Typhon and the giants