Theseus and the Minotaur
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Question 1 of 3
1. Question
Put the sentences in the correct order.
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Theseus was a brave young man.
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He was the son of Aegeus, the king of Athens.
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One day he saw seven young girls and seven young boys crying while getting on a ship.
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He asked his father what was happening.
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His father told him that they had to send them to Crete where they would go into the maze where the dreadful Minotaur lived.
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Nobody could find the way out of its dark corridors.
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Theseus decided that he had to stop this practice.
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He asked his father to allow him to go with them and fight the Minotaur.
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His father didn’t want to let him go, but Theseus insisted.
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Finally, his father agreed.
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Theseus became the seventh boy to be sent to Crete.
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When they arrived there, they were met by King Minos.
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He gave them a big feast before sending them to the maze on the next day.
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The king’s daughter, Ariadne, saw Theseus at the feast and fell in love with him.
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She wanted to save him.
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She went to Daedalus, the inventor of the labyrinth, and asked him how a person could find the way out of it.
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At night, she secretly went to find Theseus and she gave him a short sword and a ball of yarn.
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She told him to tie one end of the yarn at the entrance of the labyrinth – by following it he would find the way back.
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On the next morning Theseus and the other young people were sent into the Labyrinth.
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They were very scared but Theseus walked ahead and found the Minotaur.
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They fought long and hard and finally Theseus won.
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He followed the yarn back to the exit and was happy to see the light of day again.
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Question 2 of 3
2. Question
Find the other half of the sentence.
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- he wouldn’t have known that young boys and girls were being sent to the Minotaur.
- Theseus wouldn’t have been able to go.
- Ariadne wouldn’t have fallen in love with him.
- she wouldn’t have given him the ball of yarn.
- Theseus wouldn’t have been able to go out of the labyrinth.
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If Theseus hadn’t heard the crying,
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If King Aegeus hadn’t agreed to let him go to Crete,
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If Theseus hadn’t gone to Crete,
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If Ariadne hadn’t fallen in love with him,
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If she hadn’t given him the ball of yarn,
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Question 3 of 3
3. Question
Although the Minotaur is a legend, there really used to be a king of Crete and he used to live in a big palace in a town called Knossos. There are still ruins of this palace on the island of Crete.
This is what historians think that the palace used to look like when it was new:
Match the pictures below with the descriptions.
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- The palace wall were made of stone.
- The outer walls were decorated with images of big bull horns.
- The buildings were arranged around a big courtyard which was used for religious ceremonies.
- The floors were supported by wooden columns which were painted red.
- The floors were connected by a lot of stairs.
- Beautiful pictures were painted on the walls of the rooms.
- There was also a bath which could be used by the queen.
- Water was led to the bathroom through huge pipes.
- Food, oil and wine were stored in huge clay jars.
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