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• Quinceañera

What symbolic gift is known as the “last doll” at some quinceañeras?

Answer

A doll

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• Pandora's Box

In Hesiod’s Works and Days, which god gives Pandora a deceitful mind and crafty words?

Answer

Hermes

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• Pandora's Box

In Greek mythology, who is Pandora’s daughter, later associated with the survivors of the Great Flood?

Answer

Pyrrha

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Which Hesiod poem gives another account of Pandora’s creation besides Works and Days?

Answer

Theogony

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• Pandora's Box

What does the Greek word pithos, used for Pandora’s container, most directly mean?

Answer

Storage jar

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Pandora, one of Saturn’s moons, was first photographed by which spacecraft?

Answer

Voyager 1

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Which 19th-century celestial object was named Pandora after the Greek myth?

Answer

Asteroid 55 Pandora

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Which Greek goddess gives Pandora beauty and desire in Hesiod’s creation account?

Answer

Aphrodite

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Which Greek god gives Pandora clothing and teaches her weaving in Hesiod’s Works and Days?

Answer

Athena

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• Pandora's Box

In Hesiod’s Pandora story, what act by Prometheus prompts Zeus to send Pandora to humanity?

Answer

Stealing fire

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• Pandora's Box

In the Pandora myth, which god is said to shape Pandora from earth?

Answer

Hephaestus

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In Hesiod’s Works and Days, who opens the container that releases troubles into the world?

Answer

Pandora

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