Demeter and Persephone Quiz

Which of these does the play explain?


• How seasons where created.

• How heaven and hell where created.

• How people who are different fall in love.

• How mothers love their children more than anything in the world.

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When the Narrator says “eavesdropping” what does she mean

• Dropping things from the eave or side of your house.

• What Santa does on Christmas Eve with gifts.

• Listening in on conversations when people don’t know you are listening.

• Telling secrets to people that they aren’t supposed to know.

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Demeter’s lines throughout the play suggest that she—

• Hates Zues.

• Loves her daughter very much and misses her greatly.

• Is excited to go to the underworld to visit Hades.

• Loves the Spring time.

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Read this excerpt from Persephone

“Yes, dear Hermes. Now that I have been here for almost a year, I have grown fond of Hades. I know it is my destiny to live here forever, yet I yearn to see my mother.”

What can the reader infer about Persephone from this excerpt?

• That Persephone hates Hades and is ready to go see her mother.

• Persephone is looking for any way possible to get her out of Hades.

• Persephone is made that Hermes came to find her.

• Persephone has fallen in love with Hades, but still misses her mother.

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This play has just one scene because —


• The characters change.

• The setting changes.

• The setting does not change.

• There is just one character.

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Which of these is the best summary of the play?

• A young goddess names Persephone meets a shepherd while out gathering flowers. Her mom meets the same shepherd later in the story. The shepherd knows where Persephone is and helps Deter know where to find her.

• Persephone falls in love with Hades the God of the underworld after being stolen from earth. She tells Hermes she likes the underworld and doesn’t want to leave forever, but agrees to go visit her mother for six months out of each year.

• While out one day picking flowers Persephone is tricked by Hades the God of the underworld and pulled all the way down to the underworld with him. Her mother misses her greatly and searches everywhere for her. She becomes so sad that the earth looses all of its gifts such as sun and food to eat. Hermes comes to ask comes to ask how he can helps and goes to the underworld to retrieve her. Persephone agrees to spend 6 months with her mother and 6 months with Hades.

• While out picking flowers one day Persephone is tricked by Hades the God of the underworld and pulled all the way down to the underworld with him. She misses her mother and agrees to go spend 6 months with her new love Hades and 6 months with her mother.

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Which sentences best help to create suspense in the story?

• Persephone is now the queen of the underworld.

• I have grown fond of you too.

• My Lord you are Generous and King.

• Is that true Persephone?

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Which sentence best reveals Demeter’s thoughts and feelings?

• Dearest Persephone, how sweet and innocent you are.

• She is disappeared without a trace.

• Noooooo! My one and only daughter gone forever.

• Go find her Hermes.

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1. Hades contributes to solving the Demeter’s problem mostly by —

• Stealing her daughter to the underworld.

• Agreeing to let Persephone spend 6 months of every year with her mother.

• Making Persephone Queen of the Underworld.

• Loving Persephone with all of his heart.

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Read the sentence from paragraph 


Demeter was gray with grief. She went up to Mount Olympus, taking with her all the gifts she had bestowed upon the earth. Sunlight dwindled and the days grew shorter and colder. The trees were bare and flowers froze and died.

The sensory language in this sentence shows that Demeter—

• Caused fall and winter because of her sadness over her daughter’s disappearance.

• Made flowers to grow and the sun to shine brighter.

• Caused the trees to bloom in beautiful color.

• Was sad that the flowers had died and the days were shorter.

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