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Quiz 71 Answers

1. Two statues from the funerary temple to Amenhotep III in Egypt were identified by the Greeks as the legendary king:
a. Achilles
b. Proteus
c. Memnon
d. Cheops


2. Hercules killed this many-headed poisonous snake in a place called Lerna:
a. Scylla
b. Hydra
c. Python
d. Apophis


3. The monuments known as “Cleopatra’s Needle” in New York and London are actually these:
a. obelisks
b. church steeples
c. weathervanes
d. lightning rods


4. Originally, the Great Wall of China was a series of fortifications. The joining of the sections came during this dynasty:
a. Shang
b. Ming
c. Zhou
d. Qin




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