Demeter, Hades, and Persephone

Farmers call Demeter " the great mother" because she

• has many children

• has raised Persephone well

• is generous to them

• likes to be admired

Hades kidnaps Persephone because he

• is an enemy of her mother

• wants to marry her

• longs to be immortal

• seeks revenge against Zeus

Demeter asks Apollo for information about her daughter because Apollo

• is related to her

• can predict the future

• may have helped kidnap Persephone

• sees everything from his chariot in the heavens

Which response best explains why Demeter neglects her duties as goddess of the harvest?

• She is grief stricken over the loss of her daughter

• She wants to teach Hades a lesson

• She needs Persephone's help to make crops grow

• She doesn't think the gods and goddess respect her

Demeter places Demophoon in the fire in order to

• make him immortal

• keep him warm

• hide him from Hades

• frighten his mother

As a result of Metaneira's interference, Demeter

• kills Demophoon

• loses hope of ever seeing him again

• reveals her identity as a goddess

• wants Zeus to punish Metaneira

Zeus decides that Persephone must be returned to Demeter to

• stop the fighting between the gods and goddess

• make Persephone happy again

• prevent humankind from dying of hunger

• show Demeter that he loves her

Persephone agrees to eat something before she leaves Hades because she

• is trying to be kind to him

• is weak from the lack of food

• wants to prove to him that she is happy to

  be leaving

• wishes to avoid an argument with him and delaying her departure

As a result of eating pomegranate seeds, Persephone

• forgets her life on earth

• must return to the underworld for seven months of the year

• is transformed into a tree

• will never die or age

In this myth, who is the most powerful of the immortals

• Zeus

• Hades

• Iris

• the Fates