(Godfrey) Blended Mythology

SHORT ANSWER STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS Mythology

 Part Two Stories of Love and Adventure

Chapter 5 Cupid and Psyche         Chapter 6 Eight Brief Tales of Lovers

1.    Why was Venus angry at Psyche?

 2.    Was Venus’s plan for revenge successful?

 3.    What did Psyche discover about her mysterious husband, and what happened when she discovered it?

 4.    What finally happened to Cupid and Psyche?

 5.    Which lovers arranged a tryst, mistakenly thought the other had been killed, and killed themselves?

 6.    Identify the lovers in the following summary. He was the son of one of the Muses, and a gifted musician. She died on their wedding day. He went to the underworld and tried, unsuccessfully, to bring her back.

 7.    This man was killed at sea. Morpheus appeared to his wife and told her that her husband was dead. Then she and her dead husband were turned into birds.

 8.    He fell in love with a statue that he had made. Venus brought the statue to life and they married. Who were they?

 9.    What did Baucis and Philemon do?

 10.  Apollo fell in love with this daughter of the river god Peneus. She did not love him. To protect her, her father turned her into a laurel tree. Who was this?