Lesson 3 Orpheus

Question 1

There were nine goddesses called ?

Answer 1

Muses

Question 2

Born of Zeus and a Titan named

Answer 2

Mnemosyne

Question 3

She was the mother of Orpheus (a mortal because his father was one) and gave to her son a remarkable talent for music.

Answer 3

Calliope

Question 4

one of these sisters, was the inspiration of poets and musicians.

Answer 4

Calliope

Question 5

played his lyre so sweetly that he charmed all things on earth.

Answer 5

Orpheus

Question 6

Men and women forgot their cares when they gathered around him to listen.

Answer 6

Orpheus

Question 7

Wild beasts lay down as if they were tame, entranced by his soothing notes.

Answer 7

Orpheus

Question 8

Even rocks and trees followed him, and the rivers changed their directions to hear him play.

Answer 8

Orpheus

Question 9

he loved a young woman named Eurydice

Answer 9

Orpheus

Question 10

How did Eurydice died?

Answer 10

she stepped on a poisonous snake.

Question 11

roamed the earth, singing sad melodies to try to overcome his grief.

Answer 11

Orpheus

Question 12

He longed for Eurydice so deeply that he decided to follow her to the?

Answer 12

Underworld

Question 13

“I will charm Persephone and Hades with my music and win Eurydice’s release” said who?

Answer 13

Orpheus

Question 14

When he reached the river ___, he plucked his lyre and charon.

Answer 14

Styx

Question 15

the fierce three headed dog who guarded the gates, heard the sweet music and lay still to let him pass.

Answer 15

Cerberus

Question 16

the ___ cried when they heard his sad music.

Answer 16

ghosts

Question 17

who had been condemned to roll a rock uphill forever, stopped his fruitless work to listen.

Answer 17

Sisyphus

Question 18

who had been sentenced to stand in a pool of receding water,stopped trying to quench his thirst.

Answer 18

Tantalus

Question 19

And even the wheel to which ___ was tied as punishment stopped turning for one moment.

Answer 19

Lxion

Question 20

king and queen of the underworld.

Answer 20

Hades and Persephone

Question 21

she was so moved that, for the first time in all her months in the underworld, her heart melted.

Answer 21

Persephone

Question 22

he began to weep when he heard orpheus’s song.

Answer 22

Hades

Question 23

She must follow you, and “you must not look back at her until you are on earth again.” said who?

Answer 23

Hades

Question 24

left the underworld and made their way through the dark passage that led to the upper world.

Answer 24

Orpheus and Eurydice

Question 25

He caught one last glimpse of her with her arms stretched out to him.

Answer 25

Orpheus

Question 26

she disappeared, swallowed up by darkness.

Answer 26

Eurydice

Question 27

“Farewell,” he heard who cry? as ___ was carried back to the underworld.

Answer 27

Eurydice

Question 28

And so he wandered the earth alone.

Answer 28

Orpheus

Question 29

He sang his sad songs to the rocks and the trees and longed for the time when he, too, would die and be reunited with his beloved Eurydice in the underworld.

Answer 29

Orpheus