| A | B |
| Odysseus' comrade not properly buried | Elpenor |
| Achilles in the underworld tells Odysseus | He'd rather be a slave among the living than a king in Hades |
| First person Odysseus spoke to in the Underworld | The seer, Tiresias |
| Plato's dialogue containing the Myth of Er | The Symposium |
| Aeneas travels to the Underworld | To speak with his father, Anchises |
| Aeneas does not bring this with him to the Underworld | A coin for Charon |
| According to the Myth of Er, the virtuous go | upward through an opening in the sky |
| Hell | Tartarus |
| chthonian | A divinity who is of the earth |
| River of Forgetfulness | Lethe |
| According to the Myth of Er, who chooses the pattern for one's next life? | One chooses for oneself |
| Sysiphus' punishment | Continually roll a rock up a hill |
| Another great mythological sinner besides Sysiphus | Ixion; Tantalus; Tityus; a Danaid |
| Three judges in the Underworld | Minos; Rhadamanthus; Aeacus |
| The Guide of Dante in Hell | Vergil |