ROMAN GOD AND GODDESSES
• Supreme King of the gods. Roman god of the
sky and thunder, and patron god of Rome.
ANSWER: ZEUS.
• Roman goddess of wisdom, arts, trade and
strategy.
ANSWER: ATHENA.
• The Roman god of fire, volcanoes, metal work
and the forge; maker of the weapons of the
gods.
ANSWER: HEPHAESTUS.
• Vesta was the virgin goddess of hearth, home
and family who watched over the sacred fire for
every Roman house. What was the Goddess
Vesta's symbol?
ANSWER: FIRE
• The 12 lectisternium of the Twelve Great
Roman Gods.
ANSWER: Jupiter, Juno, Mars, Mercury, Neptune,
Venus, Apollo, Diana, Minerva, Ceres, Vulcan, and
Vesta.
• Why did the Romans not want to make anger
the Gods?
ANSWER: Every aspect of your life will be under the
thumb of the Gods because they have complete control.
Life may be quite terrible if the gods aren't on your side.
BEOWULF
• The demon that caused great fear, death, and
despair to the Danish people.
ANSWER: GRENDEL
• Who are the Geats?
ANSWER: HYGELAC, HYGD, WIGLAF, AND SIGMUND.
• Why did Beowulf accept the plea of the Dane
king which is to defeat Grendel?
ANSWER: TO PROVE THAT HE IS AN UNBEATABLE
WARRIOR.
• What are the literary devices used in Beowulf?
ANSWER: Alliteration-Kennings-Caesura
• What kind of monster guides the treasure?
ANSWER: The Dragon
• How did Beowulf died?
ANSWER: when he was poisoned because he was bitten
by the dragon.
• He is a monstrous creature defeated by
Beowulf?
ANSWER: Grendel
• They are the most beautiful, the bravest, the
boldest, and the most loyal group of people in
the epic poem Beowulf?
ANSWER: The Geats
• Why Hrothgar is a good king?
ANSWER: Because he is generous to his thanes, wise, a
father figure in the epic.
• When Beowulf grew old but was still
courageous and willing to confront the dragon.
Who was the geat who assisted or
companioned him to kill the dragon?
ANSWER: Wiglaf
• The Danes were a North Germanic tribe
inhabiting the southern Scandinavia. Who are
the Danes in Beowulf?
ANSWER: Shield Sheafson, Beow, Wealtheow, Unfearth,
Hrethric, and Hrothulf.
• How did Beowulf kill Grendel’s mother?
ANSWER: At first, Beowulf was unsuccessful when he
tried to kill Grendel’s Mother with his sword. But then,
he discovered an enormous weapon forged for giants in
which he used to swing in a powerful arc to decapitate
or cut off the head to Grendel’s mother.
• He is an excellent and successful king. He builds
Heorot, a magnificent hall, and builds love and
loyalty through his generosity and wisdom.
ANSWER: Hrothgar
 • What characteristic of Beowulf that makes him
an epic hero?
ANSWER: Beowulf’s personal characteristics include the
heroic traits of loyalty, honor, bravery, faith, and
superhuman strength.
• Why does Beowulf want to see the treasure?
ANSWER: Beowulf begs to see the dragon's wealth as he
dies. He may believe that the fortune he has amassed
will ensure his fame for the foreseeable future. He
surely thinks that this wealth will make up for the death
of his king
DON QUIXOTE
• He is a key character; he appears in many
guises, especially as knights-at-arms, and finally
is the cause of Quixote's return home.
Answer: Samson Carrasco.
• They are frequent causes of pain and
humiliation for the pair from La Mancha.
Answer: The duke and duchess.
• Why is Don Quixote forced to go back home?
Wherein he regained his sanity and died at
peace.
Answer: At the end of the second part, another
character from Don Quixote’s village, dressed also as a
knight-errant, challenges Don Quixote and wins.
• In what year did Cervantes published the first
part of Don Quixote?
ANSWER: 1605
• Who is the person who had to put his pen aside
and, instead, picked up a weapon, joining a
Spanish military unit in Italy?
ANSWER: Miguel de Cervantes
• How did Quixote regains his senses before the
novel ends?
ANSWER: In one scene, the deluded Don Quixote even
fights a windmill, mistaking it for a giant.
• When did Cervantes became a soldier and was
badly wounded in the Battle of Lepanto?
ANSWER: 1570
• He is a Spanish writer who created one of the
world's greatest literary masterpieces, including
Don Quixote.
ANSWER: Miguel De Cervantes
• How was Cervantes being described when he
was an avid reader as a child?
ANSWER: A skill he was reportedly taught by relative.
• When did Cervantes became a soldier and was
badly wounded in the Battle of Lepanto?
ANSWER: 1570
• He is a Spanish writer who created one of the
world's greatest literary masterpieces, including
Don Quixote.
ANSWER: Miguel De Cervantes
• How was Cervantes being described when he
was an avid reader as a child?
ANSWER: A skill he was reportedly taught by relative.
• it is a common thread in Don Quixote,
particularly in how it relates to marriage.
Answer: Love
• He is the ultimate idealist.
Answer: Don Quixote
• A scholar whom Antonia accuses of stealing
Quixote's library
Answer: The priest
• The ideal aesthetic and ethical life model. He
becomes a knight-errant in order to protect the
world's justice, do good, and live his life as if it
were a work of art.
Answer: Don Quixote
• What themes can you expect to see in Don
Quixote?
Answer: Idealism vs Realism, Honor vs Virtue, Love,
Insanity, and Social Class
• How could Don Quixote be considered a hero?
Answer: Quixote enters an idealistic world and must live
with the consequences. What makes him heroic is his
determination to rest
ILIAD
• He wanted the Greek to attack right now, but
Odysseus told them to rest and eat first and he
slew thousands of men in his onslaught.
ANSWER: Achilles
• He is a suitor of Helen, and his name means
“first to be slain”.
ANSWER: Protesilaus
• Why did Achilles ask Zeus to help the Trojans?
ANSWER: Achilles seeks the payment of a debt that
Zeus owes to Thetis. Achilles asks Thetis to remind Zeus
of this debt and then beg him to help the Trojans
against the Greeks, so that Agamemnon "'may know his
blindness in that he honored no whit the best of the
Achaeans'".
• Reputed to be the most beautiful woman of
ancient Greek Stolen by Paris from Menelaus
Answer: Helen
• How many Trojans were sacrificed to be burned
along with Patroclus's corpse?
Answer: 12
• Why does Achilles allow Patroclus to go into
battle wearing his armor?
Answer: To intimidate the Trojans and lead the Greeks
to victory
• She was the one who used a spell to make
Helen of Troy fall in love with Paris.
ANSWER: Aphrodite
• What strategy did the Greeks use to finally
defeat the Trojans?
ANSWER: c. By hiding in a wooden horse left as a
present.
• For the majority of the poem, why does Achilles
refuse to fight?
ANSWER: Achilles refuses to fight because Agamemnon
stole away from him a beautiful young maiden named
Briseis whom he’d won as a prize for his achievement in
battle.
• What poem narrates an episodes of the trojan
war fought between the archaeans (Greek)
against the trojans.
ANSWER: ILIAD
• What Century belong is the Iliad?
ANSWER: C- 8th Century BC
• How many comprises book has Iliad?
ANSWER: 24 books
DIVINE COMEDY
• A place or region that resembles hell.
ANSWER: Inferno
• Enumerate the eight “Terraces of Purgatorio”?
ANSWER: Late-repentant, Proud, Envious, Wrathful,
Slothful, Avaricious, Gluttonous and Lustful
• How many chapters are in the Divine Comedy?
ANSWER: The Divine Comedy has three sections:
Inferno (Hell), Purgatorio (Purgatory) and Paradiso
(Paradise or Heaven)
• The first question may contain a paraphrased
definition, which may also be from another
reference.This planet is named after the
messenger of the gods?
Answer: Mercury
• Enumerate the 10 heavens
Answer: Moon, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter,
Saturn, Fixed Stars, Primum Mobile/ The Crystalline
Empyrean
 • The third question may ask how or whyWhy are The three beasts block Dante from the sunlit hill in
spirits force to leave their religious life? Canto I?

Answer: because they have broken their vows ANSWER: The Leopard,lion, and she-wolf.

• What is the three-headed guard dog of The Why is Judas unable to speak?
Underworld?
Answer: Lucifer is chewing on his head.
ANSWER: Cerberus

• Enumerate the three rings

ODYSSEY
ANSWER: outer ring, middle ring, inner ring
• IT MEANS A LONG AND PRELIOUS JOURNEY?
• Why Virgil asked the deceased love-of-Dante's-
ANSWER: ODYSSEY
life, Beatrice, to send someone down?
• THIS IS FLAW OF CHARACTER AND HERO?
ANSWER: Lucia felt sorry for Dante and asked the
deceased love-of-Dante's-life, Beatrice, to send ANSWER: HUBRIS
someone down to help him. And voila! Virgil to the
• WHY HERMES GAVE MOLY TO ODYSSEUS?
rescue.
ANSWER: TO GAVE ODYSSEUS RESISTANCE TO CIRCE'S
• It is Service marred by ambition.
MAGIC.
Answer: Mercury
• What Island did Odysseus and his men
• What is the verb and noun that describe plundered?
Jupiter?
ANSWER: Ismaros Island
Answer: Justice and Rulers
• Who caused the journey of Odysseus?
• Why do Piccarda and Constance could have
ANSWER: Athena and Poseidon
willed not to break their vows indefinitely?
• How many years did Odysseus fight in the
Answer: They could have willed not to break their vows
indefinitely but attempted to return to the religious life. trojan war?
Since they did not, they wavered in their faith and were ANSWERS: 10 years
less virtuous for doing so.
• Who're the angry Gods that causes Odysseus'
• It is the punishment of souls, "Suffer te journey?
oppsite"?
ANSWER: Athena and Poseidon
ANSWER: Contrapasso
• What did Odysseus and his 12 ships recounted
• The 3 types of sins that the three beasts when they left Ismaros island?
represents?
ANSWER: Fierce storm
ANSWER: self-indulgent, the violent, the malicious
• Who catched Odysseus and his men?
• How many cantos are in the divine comedy as a
whole? ANSWER: Polyphemus

ANSWER: there are 99 cantos in the divine comedy • It is the name of the suitor who is also a poet
who was not killed during the murder in the
• The river must souls cross before they enter hall.
Hell?
ANSWERS: Apollo
ANSWER: The acheron
 • What are the names of the parents of Nausicaa
and what island is her mother from?
ANSWERS: The name of the father is King Alcinous and
the mother is Queen Arete who is from the island of
Phaeacians
• Why did Odysseus disguised as a beggar?
ANSWERS: Because he planned to rid of the suitors
• What is the member of a race of savage one-
eyed giarts.
ANSWERS: Cyclops
• From what war is odysseus attempting to return
home?
ANSWERS: The Trojan war
• How does the loyal nurse Eurycleia recognize
odysseus?
ANSWERS: By a scar on his leg
CANTERBURY TALES
• Why do the characters tell stories in The
Canterbury Tales?
ANSWER: The characters in The Canterbury Tales
tell stories to pass time on their pilgrimage to
Canterbury and to compete for a free supper.
• How long was the Pilgrims journey in The
Canterbury Tales?
ANSWER: About sixty miles southeast of London, or
about a week-long journey.
• What literary devices are used in The
Canterbury Tales?
ANSWER: There are examples of imagery, allegory,
alliteration, satire, hyperbole, allusion, personification,
irony, similes and metaphors in The Canterbury Tales.
• It is a type of tale focusing on the episodic
adventures of knights and the challenges they
face.
Answer: ROMANCE
• She is the “appearance of culture” in masked
sarcasm. Cares about animals, not people.
Loves worldly possessions of God.
Answer: The Prioress
• Why are the travelers going to Canterbury?
Answer: They are on a pilgrimage to see the relics of St.
Thomas Becket.
• What is the moral of the Nun’s Priest’s Tale?
Answer: Never trust a flatterer.
• Which tale qualifies as part of a medieval
sermon?
Answer: The pardoner's tale
• Why does the Pardoner upset the Host?
Answer: The Pardoner tries to sell indulgences to the
pilgrims, after he has already told them that he cheats
people.
• What is the First Canterbury tale?
• Answer: The Knight's Tale
• What is the Host's name?
Answer: D. Harry Bailey
• How does Chaucer himself fit into the group?
Answer: Chaucer is the anonymous Narrator. He is also
one of the pilgrims.
• He is branded by a red-hot poker in the Miller’s
Tale.
Answer: Nicholas
• When does The Canterbury Tales take place?
Answer: c. In the late 14th Century
• Why is the prologue important in The
Canterbury Tales?
Answer: The prologue to The Canterbury Tales is most
important because it established the class structure of
society in Medieval England.
AENEAD
• Also known as Virgil, The greatest of Classical
Roman Poets.
ANSWER: PUBLIUS VERGILIUS MARO
• He is the son of aesimus, a young greek spy who
pretends to have been left behind at the end of
the trojan war
• The legendary King of the Rutuli in Roman
history, and the chief antagonist of the hero
Aeneas in Virgil's Aeneid.
Answer: Turnus

ANSWER: SINON • A strong and determined queen of Carthage

and lover of Aeneas.
• How does Aeneas reveal his deep reverence for
his forebearers? Answer: Dido

ANSWER: Aeneas pays proper respect to the gods and • Why does Aeneas get so angry at Turnus?
strives to always do his duty.He is the son of
Answer: Aeneas fight Turnus because Turnus killed
Venus,Aeneas makes purposeful visits to his home. Troy
Pallas, the son of Evander.
holds his allegiance, as does his family.
• An obscure mythological hero who founded
• Who ordered to publish Aeneid even after
troy and in Virgil's poem, he did so having left
Virgil's wish to burn the composition?
from a place called “Corythus”.
ANSWER: Augustus Caesar
Answer: Dardanus
• Who did Cupid incited to fall in love with
• Who was the goddess of Venus?
Aeneas?
Answer: Aphrodite Question
ANSWER: Dido
• Why did Venus drop down to Earth disguised as
• How did Turnus lose to Aeneas in their duel?
a huntress?
ANSWERS: Turnus' sword broke, he panicked and finally
Answer: to give aeneas directions to the nearest city.
was wounded by Aeneas' spear

• A villainous pretender who tricks the guileless

trojan into accepting the trojan horse.

ANSWER: SINON

• In the Aeneid of Virgil, she commits suicide

during the conflict between Aeneas and Turnus
over which of them would marry Lavinia.

ANSWER: AMATA

• Who was the messenger goddess of Jupiter?

ANSWER: IRIS

• How does Dido and Aeneas duty conflict with

their love for each other?

ANSWER: Love and duty are at odds, especially in Book

IV, and this is shown in the love Dido feels for Aeneas
and the responsibility Aeneas feels for resuming his
duties. Dido's love is a violent force because her
emotions have destroyed her self-control. It is like an
"inward fire eating her away", and she abandons her
duties to her people because of it