Persephone and Demeter

Why does Hades kidnap Persephone?

• He knows that Demeter would never agree to let him marry her

• She is a bad person, so he takes her to the underworld.

• He is angry at her.

What is the one fruit that grows in the gardens of Hades?

• weeping willows

• poplars

• pomegranate

Why must Persephone return to the underworld?

• She is married to Hades.

• She eats a little bit of the pomegranate.

• She doesn’t miss her mother.

Where does Persephone live at the end of the myth?

• She lives with Hades

• She lives with Demeter.

• She lives in the underworld for part of the year.

The heard of pigs from the myth is rooting in the meadow. What are they doing?

• digging

• running

• falling

Why does Hades lead his horses back down into the cleft after he kidnaps Persephone?

• It is the opening in the earth back to the underworld.

• The swineherd directed them there.

• He wants to talk to Demeter.

When Persephone returns, Demeter is a radiant goddess again. What does radiant mean?

• bright and beautiful

• barren and cold

• sad and old