After his daughter’s shape-shifting fails to satisfy his hunger, the text concludes: “He began to savage his own limbs. / And there, at a final feast, devoured himself.” What does this ending most powerfully reveal about the logic of Ceres’s punishment?  

The barber who discovers Midas’s secret whispers into a hole in the ground, and reeds grow there that “betrayed the barber’s confidence, / Broadcasting the buried secret. / Hissing to all who happened to be passing: / ‘Ass’s ears! Midas has ass’s ears!'” What does this episode suggest about power, secrecy, and truth?

When Juno transforms Callisto into a bear, the text observes: “Yet her mind was unaltered. Her lament / Was the roar of a bear — but her grief was human. / And though they were a bear’s forepaws / That she raked at heaven’s face with, / Her despair over Jove’s ingratitude… was a girl’s.” How does this detail most directly shape the reader’s understanding of Callisto’s punishment?

Agave kills Pentheus while possessed by the god, believing him to be a boar: “It’s the boar that ploughed up our gardens! / I’ve hit it!” The text then concludes: “The lesson / Was not lost on Thebes, the city of letters. / Women made sure, thereafter, / That this sleepy child / Was acknowledged, was honoured.” What does this ending most powerfully reveal about how the myth’s lesson is transmitted?

When Pluto abducts Proserpina, she screams for her mother, then for her friends, and then “in her childishness / She screamed for her flowers as they fell, / While her ravisher leaped with her / Into his chariot.” What does Proserpina’s screaming for her scattered flowers reveal about Hughes’s characterization of the abduction?

After his weapons repeatedly fail against Cygnus, Achilles turns on the ordinary soldier Menoetes, killing him with a single throw, then announces: “This corpse, this spear / And this arm, I have proved, are perfect Achilles.” The text earlier noted that Achilles acted “Exasperated, to reassure himself.” What does this episode most directly reveal about Achilles?

Jupiter resolves the conflict between Ceres and Pluto by dividing Proserpina’s year between the two realms, then observing: “Her nature, too, is divided. One moment / Gloomy as hell’s king, but the next / Bright as the sun’s mass, bursting from clouds.” What does Jupiter’s compromise primarily reveal about how the myth treats the original crime of abduction?

All nerves involved in the voluntary control of skeletal muscles are part of the _____ system of the peripheral nervous system.

Hughes describes Midas’s golden-touch fantasy as something that “Hovered in his head perpetually, / Wistfully fondled all his thoughts by day, / Manipulated all his dreams by night. / Now it saw its chance and seized his tongue.” What does this personification of Midas’s desire primarily reveal?

All of the following muscles flex the hip except