Demeter and Persephone Quiz

Who are Persephone's parents?

• Hades and Aphrodite

• Zeus and Demeter

• Hermes and Aphrodite

• Ares and Demeter

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Who falls in love with Persephone and steals her away?

• Ares

• Zeus

• Hades

• Apollo

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What does Demeter do when she learns that Zeus approved the marriage between Persephone and Hades?

• She cries until the entire world is flooded with water

• She screams until all of the beasts of the world fall silent

• She covers the earth in snow and kills all of the plants

• She agrees with him and throws Persephone an enormous party

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When Zeus calls upon Hades to send Persephone back to Demeter, what does Hades give to Persephone?

• Pomegranate seeds

• A magic mirror

• A locket

• A curse

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Why is the pomegranate significant?

• It is poisonous--Hades kills Persephone in order to be with her forever in the underworld

• It is the first fruit to grow in spring, signalling Persephone's return

• It is what Persephone named her first child

• Every pomegranate seed Persephone ate resulted in a month she must spend in the underworld with Hades

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What does the story of Persephone and Demeter explain?

• How pomegranates came to be

• The seasons

• Snow

• The sea

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