Reading Check and Short Answer Questions on key points are designed for guided reading assignments, in-class review, formative assessment, quizzes, and more.

BOOK 1

Reading Check

1. Who or what is the first being that exists in the cosmos?

Short Answer

Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. Why does Jupiter punish humanity with the flood?

Paired Resource

Life of Ovid

• Britannica’s biography of the poet Ovid includes relevant details about his family, childhood, career, and personal life.
• This connects to the themes of Myth, History, and Empire and Boundaries and Fluidity.
• How did the events of Ovid’s life influence his poetry?

BOOK 2

Reading Check

1.How does Apollo find out Coronis has been unfaithful to him?

Short Answer

Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. What is Phaethon’s wish? Why is the Sun unable to deny it?

BOOK 3

Reading Check

1. Who is the mother of Bacchus?

Short Answer

Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence. Incorporate details from the text to support your response.

1. Why is Tiresias blinded?

BOOK 4

Reading Check

1. Why does Clytie spread rumors about Leucothoe?

Short Answer

Answer each question in at least 1 complete sentence.