Eurydice Quiz

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Questions 1-5 of 25:

1.

What does Eurydice do, hoping her father will remember her? (from Movement Three: Scenes 1-3)

She tries to teach him how to spell her name.

She weeps over him.

She tries to teach him how to read.

She embraces him.

2.

Orpheus returns to the underworld a second time. How does he feel when he sees Eurydice? (from Movement Three: Scenes 1-3)

Angry.

Sad.

Besotted,

Happy.

3.

How does Orpheus reach the underworld? (from Movement Two: Scenes 10-20)

He writes a letter asking the Lord of the Underworld to release Eurydice.

He sings a note so powerfully, he opens the earth.

He travels to the underworld in a dream.

He crawls through a straw while he is asleep.

4.

For whom does Eurydice say a wedding is most significant? (from Movement One: Scenes 1 - 3)

A wedding is for a father and a daughter, because it is the day the two stop being married to each other.

A wedding is for a mother, because she relives her youth.

A wedding is for a bride, because she will see if she is the kind of interesting person who leaves her own wedding.

A wedding is for a husband and a wife, because it is the day they become like big, shading trees for each other.

5.

When he is helping Eurydice relearn language, how does her father define the word, “father?” (from Movement Two: Scenes 1 - 5)

A father is the person who gives his daughter her name.

Having a father is like sitting in the shade of a large tree.

A father is the person who teaches his daughter how to read and write.

A father is the most important person at a wedding.

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