Question
Rearrange the following sentences and make a paragraph on how Proserpine returned from the underworld to her mother on Earth:
- Suddenly one day Ceres picked up Proserpine’s girdle by the riverside.
- Ceres visited Jupiter and sought his help to get back her daughter.
- Pluto took away the beautiful maiden Proserpine to his underground kingdom.
- Ceres went underground to find that Proserpine had already eaten six pomegranates there.
- Ceres, her mother much surprised not to find her at home in the evening.
- The nymph of the fountain told Ceres about her daughter’s whereabouts.
- Jupiter said that Proserpine might return to earth to earth if she had not eaten any food in the land of the dead.
- The mother searched for her daughter everywhere in vain.
- Proserpine was destined to spend six months every year in Pluto’s underworld and the remaining six months on Earth with her mother.
Answer
(a) – 4
(b) – 6
(c) – 1
(d) – 8
(e) – 2
(f) – 5
(g) – 7
(h) – 3
(i) – 9
