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Creation Myths Test

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Question 1
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Question 2
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What did Kronos do to defeat his father?

Question 3
3.

Who is the goddess of love and beauty, born from blood and semen mixing with sea foam?

Question 4
4.

What did Rhea do to save her infant son, Zeus?

Question 5
5.

What cycle reveals itself throughout the Greek creation myth?

Question 6
6.

Where do the first people live?

Question 7
7.

Which did NOT exist at the beginning?

Question 8
8.

Who is the father of all gaints?

Question 9
9.

Who is killed to make the world?

Question 10
10.

What feeds the eleven rivers?

Question 11
11.

Who gave people will?

Question 12
12.

Who is NOT a son of Bor?

Question 13
13.

When will Surtr leave Muspell?

Question 14
14.

The people were made from what?

Question 15
15.

According to ancient Egyptian tradition, how did the the universe begin?

Question 16
16.

What are Shu and Tefnet the god and goddess of?

Question 17
17.

What problem was caused by Nut and Geb wanting to be together all the time?

Question 18
18.

Why did the ancient peoples create myths?

Question 19
19.

Which phenomenon is explained in the Demeter myth?

Question 20
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Question 21
21.

What archetype can be seen in the relationship between Tiamat and her children in the Babylonian creation myth?

Question 22
22.

In the Chinese creation myth, P'an Ku is a...

Question 23
23.

When P'an Ku died, what happened?

Question 24
24.

If you finish early, you can use this question to draw something from one of the creation myths.

Match the following terms from the Greek creation story.
The depths of the sea
Ouranos/Uranus
Love (has golden wings)
Night/Nyx
A dark, abyss-like dungeon
Titans
The 100-handed, 50-headed monsters
Hecatonchires
A darkness with substance and no light
Pontus
Representations of the forces of Nature
Eros
The darkness of death
Gaia (Ge)
The one-eyed monsters
Erebus
The Father Sky/Heaven
Cyclopes
Mother Earth
Tartarus
Why is mythology a complicated area of study? (Select ALL appropriate answers.)
There are only oral versions of the myths.
The stories are ancient.
The stories are not old enough.
We cannot tell the difference between myths and folktales.
There is not enough print material to consider these stories reliable.
There is only one author for each myth.
The stories are open to many interpretations.
There is only one correct interpretation and we don't know what it is.