Read the following passage and answer the questions
given below:
In the northern part of Greece, there stood a lofty
mountain called Olympus. Its sides were covered with thick, green woods, and it
was so high that its peak seemed to pierce through the clouds up into the sky.
None of the people of Greece had climbed to the top of Mount Olympus, and they
said that it was there that the gods lived, among the clouds and the stars. The
people of Greece believed that if they did anything wrong, it would displease
the gods, and they would be punished by sickness or death or some other’evil; but
if they did what was right, the gods would be pleased and would love them and
send them wealth and happiness. So they built great temples of marble, and in
them set up god and ivory images of the gods; and there they came, in times of trouble,
to ask for help; and when they were happy, they came to offer up their thanks
to the kind gods.
Questions:
(a) Where, according to the people of Greece, did the
gods live’?
(b) What did the people of Greece believe if they did
anything wrong?
(c) What did the people of Greece believe if they did
what was right?
(d) Why did the people of Greece come to the temples
of marble ?
(e) Give the noun form of ‘displease’.
(f) Fill in the blanks with suitable word.
The people of Greece are called ______ .
(g) Of the following four statements two Statements
are true. Write therm out.
(i) Olympus is a lofty mountain in Greece.
(ii) The people of Greece believed that Mount Olympus
was the abode of gods.
(iii) The temples were built at the base of Mount
Olympus as none of the Greeks had climbed to the top of Mount Olympus.
(iv) The gods of clouds and stars lived on the top of
Mount Olympus.
