Echo & Narcissus

What character trait best describes Echo?

• Quiet

• Caring

• Talkative

• Selfless

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

Why can Echo only repeat the things people say to her.

• She is too lazy to think of anything to say herself.
• Hera cursed her so she couldn't mindlessly talk anymore.
• She doesn't know how to talk she can only repeat things that people say. 
• She is too shy to say anything herself so she repeats things from other people.

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CCSS.RL.4.3

What character trait best describes Narcissus?

• Loving

• narcissistic

• A hero

• helpful

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.W.4.9B

What happened to Echo at the end of the story?

• She fell in the water after Narcissus

• Her physical form faded away and only her voice remained

• She yelled at her Mom

• She fell in love and married Narcissus

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

What is the overall theme of Echo and Narcissus?

• Be happy

• Fall in love and you will be happy

• Not everything is about yourself

• It pays to be nice

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CCSS.RL.4.2

What is Echo's biggest problem at the beginning of the myth?

• She is invisible.

• She talks too much.

• She is too beautiful.

• She falls in love to easily.

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

Which sentences (Choose two) explain why Narcissus rejects Echo?

• Narcissus is capable of only loving himself.

• Echo is too greedy and pushy.

• Narcissus thinks she is ugly and clumsy.

• Echo annoys him by repeating his words.

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.3

Narcissus spends his remaining days ....

• Feeling sorry for rejecting Echo.

• Picking flowers in the valley

• Playing jokes on the nymphs

• Growing weaker as he looks at his own reflection.

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CCSS.RL.4.1

CCSS.RL.4.2

CCSS.RL.4.3

After his death, Narcissus turns into a

• Pool of water

• Flower

• Mountain

• Voice

Echo pines away with grief and dies because her love is not returned. What is the meaning of "pines away" in this sentence?

• Blooms

• Expands

• Remains

• Wastes away

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CCSS.L.4.4A

CCSS.RL.4.4