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Narcissus and Echo

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What best describes Echo?
a)
Quiet
b)
Caring
c)
Talkative
d)
Selfless
2.
What best describes Narcissus?
a)
Loving
b)
Egotistical
c)
 A hero
3.

How does Hera punish Echo

a)

She make her fal in love with Narcissus.

b)

She transform her into a flower.

c)

From now on, she can only repeat what other people say.

d)

She is thrown out of Olympus,

4.

Narcissus spends his remaining days ....

a)

Feeling sorry for rejecting Echo.

b)

Picking flowers in the valley

c)

Playing jokes on the nymphs

d)

Growing weaker as he looks at his own reflection.

5.

After his death, Narcissus turns into a

a)

Pool of water

b)

Flower

c)

Mountain

d)

Voice

6.

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

a)

Blooms

b)

Expands

c)

Remains

d)

Wastes away

7.

Which goddess cursed Narcissus?

a)

Hera

b)

Aprodite

c)

Zeus

d)

Nemesis

8.
What happened to Echo at the end of the story?
a)
She fell in the water after Narcissus
b)
Her physical form faded away and only her voice remained
c)
She yelled at her Mom
9.

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

a)

Narcissus is capable of only loving himself.

b)

Echo is too greedy and pushy.

c)

Narcissus thinks she is ugly and clumsy.

d)

Echo annoys him by repeating his words.

10.

What causes Aphrodite to punish Narcissus?

a)

He hunts in the forbidden northern mountains,

b)

He mistreats Echo.

c)

He falls in love with his own reflection.

d)

He wanders away from his friends.

11.

What natural elements are explained in this myth?

a)

the Narcissus flower and echoes

b)

sunrises and sunsets

c)

the creation of spiders

d)

lakes and rivers

12.

What type of figurative language is in the line, "her heart burned like the flame of a torch."

a)

simile

b)

metaphor

c)

onomatopoeia

d)

personification

13.

Which of the following best supports why "Echo and Narcissus" is considered a myth?

a)

It contains gods and goddesses.

b)

It contains a moral or lesson for society.

c)

It contains and explanation of nature.

d)

All of the following answers.

14.

Who is Echo?

a)

A nymph

b)

A goddess

c)

The nymph who is in love with Narcissus

d)

A god