Lovers in Mythology

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Eurydice dies ______.

While celebrating her marriage to Orpheus

Of a broken heart

Because she is kidnapped by Hades, god of the underworld

Because her parents chose not to vaccinate her

The ferryboat captain who takes Orpheus across the River Styx is named ______.

Deborah

Cerberus

Charon

Persephone

Orpheus sings about all the following lovers except ______.

Zeus and Ganymede

Venus and Adonis

Myrrah and her father

Romeo and Juliet

The group of women that murders Orpheus is called ______.

The Furies

The Maenads

The Fates

The Muses

Orpheus fails to rescue Eurydice ______.

Because the Maenads want him to love them instead

Because Charon will not grant him passage across the River Styx

Because Sisyphus is not moved by his song

Because he turns around to look at her

While Zeus frolicked with other nymphs, Echo distracted Hera by:

Doing dances

Playing tricks

Telling stories

Swimming

Echo’s punishment left her:

Unable to talk

Only able to repeat the first words anyone said to her

Only able to repeat the last words anyone said to her

Narcissus rejected Echo because:

He already loved someone else

He was selfish and vain

He was a mortal

She was too talkative

Which Goddess selected a punishment for Narcissus?

Hera

Nemesis

Hecate

Aphrodite

Eventually, Narcissus was transformed into:

A tree

A river

A flower

An echo

What happened to Echo after Narcissus rejected her?

She turned into willow tree.

She fell in love with someone else.

She became one of the furies.

She faded away until only her voice (echo) remained.

Cupid makes people fall in love with each other:

By pricking them with an arrow

By setting them up on blind dates

By casting a spell

Though his mother Venus, goddess of love

Venus is jealous of Psyche because:

Cupid falls in love with Psyche

Psyche is brave

Psyche drinks ambrosia, becoming immortal like a god

Psyche steals beauty from the underworld

Psyche is so beautiful she attracts her own worshippers, like a god

Psyche sorts through a giant pile of seeds:

Very slowly

With the help of a river god

So she can retrieve Proserpina’s beauty from the underworld

With the help of some ants

By striking a bargain with a dwarf named Rumpelstiltskin

How did Psyche complete her second task?

She paid a river god to get the golden fleece for her

She asked Persephone for help getting the fleece.

She snuck up to a sheep and cut some off of the fleece.

She collected the fleece that was left on briars (bushes).

How did Psyche fail her third task?

She opened the box Hades had given her and died

She opened the box Persephone had given her and fell asleep

She opened Pandora's Box and let hope out.

She ate three pomegranate seeds and was forced to stay in the Underworld.

What happens to Psyche at the end of the story?

She is lost to the Underworld.

She is made immortal.

She dies in childbirth.

She loses her mind.

Eurydice dies ______.

While celebrating her marriage to Orpheus

Of a broken heart

Because she is kidnapped by Hades, god of the underworld

Because her parents chose not to vaccinate her

The ferryboat captain who takes Orpheus across the River Styx is named ______.

Deborah

Cerberus

Charon

Persephone

Orpheus sings about all the following lovers except ______.

Zeus and Ganymede

Venus and Adonis

Myrrah and her father

Romeo and Juliet

The group of women that murders Orpheus is called ______.

The Furies

The Maenads

The Fates

The Muses

Orpheus fails to rescue Eurydice ______.

Because the Maenads want him to love them instead

Because Charon will not grant him passage across the River Styx

Because Sisyphus is not moved by his song

Because he turns around to look at her

While Zeus frolicked with other nymphs, Echo distracted Hera by:

Doing dances

Playing tricks

Telling stories

Swimming

Echo’s punishment left her:

Unable to talk

Only able to repeat the first words anyone said to her

Only able to repeat the last words anyone said to her

Narcissus rejected Echo because:

He already loved someone else

He was selfish and vain

He was a mortal

She was too talkative

Which Goddess selected a punishment for Narcissus?

Hera

Nemesis

Hecate

Aphrodite

Eventually, Narcissus was transformed into:

A tree

A river

A flower

An echo

What happened to Echo after Narcissus rejected her?

She turned into willow tree.

She fell in love with someone else.

She became one of the furies.

She faded away until only her voice (echo) remained.

Cupid makes people fall in love with each other:

By pricking them with an arrow

By setting them up on blind dates

By casting a spell

Though his mother Venus, goddess of love

Venus is jealous of Psyche because:

Cupid falls in love with Psyche

Psyche is brave

Psyche drinks ambrosia, becoming immortal like a god

Psyche steals beauty from the underworld

Psyche is so beautiful she attracts her own worshippers, like a god

Psyche sorts through a giant pile of seeds:

Very slowly

With the help of a river god

So she can retrieve Proserpina’s beauty from the underworld

With the help of some ants

By striking a bargain with a dwarf named Rumpelstiltskin

How did Psyche complete her second task?

She paid a river god to get the golden fleece for her

She asked Persephone for help getting the fleece.

She snuck up to a sheep and cut some off of the fleece.

She collected the fleece that was left on briars (bushes).

How did Psyche fail her third task?

She opened the box Hades had given her and died

She opened the box Persephone had given her and fell asleep

She opened Pandora's Box and let hope out.

She ate three pomegranate seeds and was forced to stay in the Underworld.

What happens to Psyche at the end of the story?

She is lost to the Underworld.

She is made immortal.

She dies in childbirth.

She loses her mind.