What Do You Know About Demeter?
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Demeter was the goddess of corn, grain and the harvest. She was the daughter of Cronus and Rhea. It was believed that Demeter made the crops grow each year thus the first load of bread made from the annual harvest was offered to her.
Questions and Answers
- 1.
What was the other name given to Demeter?- A.
Sito
- B.
Thesmophoros
- C.
Ashter
- D.
A and B only
- 2.
How was Demeter described in her days?
- A.
Senate
- B.
King
- C.
Farm
- D.
Sacred law
- 3.
Where did she live during her days?
- A.
Mount Everest
- B.
Mount Hira
- C.
Mount Shijo
- D.
Mount Olympus
- 4.
She was the Eleusinian mysteries alongside her daughter named?
- A.
Khutulun
- B.
Necromancer
- C.
Bell
- D.
Persephone
- 5.
Demeter’s character as mother-goddess identified in the second element of her name as?
- A.
Khutulun
- B.
Salamander
- C.
Phesphones
- D.
Meter
- 6.
Who is the parent of the Eleusinian mystery goddess?
- A.
Cronus and Rhea
- B.
Byron and Chloe
- C.
Josh and Adam
- D.
Abaha and Ceres
- 7.
John Chadwick said the Da element in Demeter’s name is not equated with?
- A.
Agriculture
- B.
Trade
- C.
Harvet
- D.
Earth
- 8.
The element De in Demeter is connected with Deo an?
- A.
Power of Demeter
- B.
Secret of Demeter
- C.
Epithet of Demeter
- D.
None of the above
- 9.
Which of Demeter’s two major festivals was scared with mysteries?
- A.
Harvest
- B.
Ball
- C.
Easter
- D.
Thesmophoria
- 10.
Demeter’s virgin daughter Persephone was abducted to the underworld by?
- A.
Hages
- B.
Hades
- C.
Apollo
- D.
Jackals
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