LA FINAL 2

Question 1

Why is Yeh-Shen forced to live with her step mother and sister?

Answer 1

Yeh-Shen is forced to live with her step mother and sister because both of her parents died

Question 2

How were Yeh-Shen and her half-sister different (there are several differences)?

Answer 2

Yeh-Shen and her half-sister are different because Yeh-Shen is more beautiful, and Yeh-Shen has to do strenuous chores while her sister doesn’t.

Question 3

How did Yeh–Shen’s stepmother trick the fish into coming onto the bank of the pond? Why did she do this?

Answer 3

Yeh-Shen’s stepmother sent Yeh-Shen to get some firewood, and took her jacket, and the fish recognized her mother as Yeh-Shen. She did this because Yeh-Shen held it a secret and because she wanted to make her unhappy.

Question 4

Who was the old man and why did he come to see Yeh-shen?

Answer 4

The old man was the “fairy godmother” of this story, and he came to tell her that the bones of her fish would help her when she needed it.

Question 5

Why didn’t Yeh–Shen’s stepmother want Yeh–Shen to go to the festival?

Answer 5

She wanted to find her daughter someone to marry, and not Yeh-Shen. She was afraid that a boy would see her first and her actual daughter.

Question 6

Where does the slippers’ magic come from? What about their appearance gives you a clue?

Answer 6

The Slippers’ magic comes from the remains of Yeh-Shen’s fish, because she described them as having “scales” on them, like a fish.

Question 7

Why did Yeh-Shen run away from the festival?

Answer 7

Yeh-Shen ran away from the festival because her half-sister saw her, and she was afraid she would recognize her.

Question 8

Upon her return home, Yeh-Shen finds that the magic bones will no longer talk to her. Why do you think they’d stopped?

Answer 8

The magic bones stopped talking to her because she broke her promise of not losing the shoes.

Question 9

How does the golden shoe make its way back to the king?

Answer 9

The shoe made it to the king from a merchant. A villager sold it to him, and the merchant brought it to the king.

Question 10

How did the king find out where Yeh–Shen lived?

Answer 10

The king had ordered his men to follow Yeh-Shen home.

Question 11

What happens as soon as Yeh-Shen tries on the slipper?

Answer 11

When Yeh-Shen puts the slipper back on, her dress appears again.

Question 12

Why won’t the kind allow Yeh-Shen’s step-mother and sister come to the palace with them?

Answer 12

The king won’t allow Yeh-Shen’s step-mother and sister in because they treated her poorly.

Question 13

What is “winnowing”?

Answer 13

Winnowing is a method of separating the grain from the husks.

Question 14

Who was Demeter’s daughter and where was her home?

Answer 14

Persephone was the daughter of Demeter, and she lived in Sicily.

Question 15

Who wanted to marry Demeter’s daughter? Who did he seek permission from?

Answer 15

Hades wanted to marry Persephone, and he seeked permission from Zeus.

Question 16

What beautiful thing lured Demeter’s daughter away from the group? What happened when she strayed away?

Answer 16

A beautiful white and purple flower that looked like a narcissus, and from a single root a hundred blossoms sprung, and when she went to pick it, the earth opened and Hades took Persephone to the Underworld in his chariot.

Question 17

How did Demeter respond to her daughter’s disappearance?

Answer 17

Demeter was very distraught and sad of her daughter’s disappearance, and there was no harvest until she found her daughter.

Question 18

Why do you think Demeter lies to the family about her identity?

Answer 18

I think Demeter lies to the family about her identity because gods can’t show themselves in their true form, and possibly wanted to see if the daughters would believe her.

Question 19

What are Demeter’s plans for the baby that is placed in her care? How does the child’s mother find out?

Answer 19

Demeter wants to turn the child immortal and make him one of her own, and the mother stays up one night to watch her, and she sees Demeter put her baby in the fire.

Question 20

What is ambrosia?

Answer 20

Ambrosia is the food of the gods.

Question 21

Since Demeter has been mourning the loss of her daughter, what has happened to the earth?

Answer 21

The mourning of Demeter caused the death of the plants, and it became cold outside.

Question 22

How did Hades trick Demeter’s daughter? As a result of this action, what happens to earth for part of the year?

Answer 22

Hades told Persephone to dine with him before he left, so she took a pomegranate and ate seven of its seeds. Because she ate the seven seeds, she has to stay in the Underworld for seven months, while the other five she gets to stay with her mother. During the seven months she is gone, Demeter mourns, and in result, winter and fall occur.

Question 23

According to the myth, what made Orpheus’ music so special? What effect did he have on things around him?

Answer 23

What made Orpheus’ music so special was that it was so beautiful and charming, it drew things toward him, like vines, trees, rocks, animals and nymphs.

Question 24

What happened to Eurydice on her wedding day?

Answer 24

Eurydice went to the riverside to collect flowers for a bridal garland, and was bitten by a snake, and died.

Question 25

Where does Orpheus go in order to get his wife back? Who and what does he meet once there?

Answer 25

Orpheus travels to the Underworld to get his wife back, and when he arrives he meets Charon, the ferryman of the Underworld.

Question 26

According to the myth, what were the Fields of Elysium?

Answer 26

The Fields of Elysium was a place where people who lived good lives stayed.

Question 27

Who were the two kings that were sentenced to eternal punishment?

Answer 27

The two kings who were sentenced to punishment were Sisyphus and Tantalus.

Question 28

What effect had Orpheus’ music had on Hades? What did the god of the Underworld promise Orpheus?

Answer 28

Orpheus’ music made Hades care about what happened to him, so he sent him back to the Overworld with his wife, but if he looked back, she would return to Elysium.

Question 29

Describe the ascent back up out of the Underworld (what does it look like, what does he see?)

Answer 29

The ascent from the Underworld was dark and misty, with strange noises and shapes.

Question 30

What happens when Orpheus turns around as he is almost to the edge of the Underworld?

Answer 30

When Orpheus turns around to look for his wife, he sees her, and she is sent back to the Underworld.

Question 31

After he disobeys Hades, why does he go back to the Underworld for 7 days?

Answer 31

Orpheus goes back to the Underworld for 7 days to try and enter again.

Question 32

What happens when he returns to the land of the living? How are he and his wife finally reunited?

Answer 32

When he goes back to the overworld, he starts singing of Eurydice, and was killed by the women of Thrace because they were annoyed by him. When he dies, he is reunited with Eurydice in Elysium.