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1. Who was Echo?
A beautiful nymph
2. Who was Eros?
-Aphrodite's son
-also known as Cupid
3. What favor does Aphrodite offer to Echo?
To have Eros shoot any man she wanted with an arrow
4. Why does Echo refuse?
She has not yet found the perfect guy
5. Describe Narcissus.
Conceited
6. What favor did Echo do for Zeus?
She told Hera that Zeus was looking for her up on Mt. Olympus so that Hera would leave and not catch Zeus cheating on her
7. What did Hera do to Echo?
She put a curse on her that she can only say the last 2 words that people say when they talk to her
8. What does Echo ask Aphrodite to do for her?
to put her out of her misery and make her disappear
9. What happens to Narcissus at the end?
He falls in love with his reflection in the water and spends so much time looking at it that he grew roots and turned into a flower
10. What does it mean to be “narcissistic”?
to be very conceited and
self-centered
11. What did Psyche do to offend Aphrodite?
nothing at all, she was just born very beautiful and Aphrodite felt intimidated
12. What did Aphrodite plan to do to Psyche?
to have Eros shoot Psyche with an arrow and make her fall in love with something awful such as a donkey
13. What happened to Eros when he tried to shoot Psyche?
He accidentally shot himself with the arrow and fell in love with her
14. Why does Eros stop doing his job?
he wants to protect Psyche now that he is "in love" with her
15. What does the Oracle tell Psyche’s parents to do?
to take her up to the mountain
16. What one thing bothers Psyche about her new husband?
She can’t see him. She also wonders what he does all day
17. What do Psyche’s sisters convince her to do?

Why does she do it?
To sneak a look at him


She thinks that he might have other brides and other castles
18. What happened to Psyche?
Eros left her and took everything away