Setting
This is the place where the roses grew. Midas ended up turning the entire place to gold.
What is Marigold's garden?
This greedy king turned everything to gold.
Who is King Midas?
At the end of the story, King Midas swears to never touch this again.
What is gold?
This is what the king hosted...
What is a banquet?
This classmate loves cheer.
Who is Reese?
This is the place where the story starts with King Midas counting his money.
What is King Midas's Treasure Room?
This person cares more about nature than money and helps King Midas realize what's important.
Who is Marigold?
This is what King Midas offers to do for the poor people to undo his wish.
What is giving his treasure away?
To be a great surprise or amazing.
What is astounding?
This classmate loves music and drama. He has performed in plays.
Who is Princeton?
This is the place where the lords and ladies gather with King Midas to eat.
What is the Banquet Room?
This is how Midas changes by the end of the play.
What is Midas realized there are more important things than gold, like his daughter?
This is what he turns to gold, which makes him start to realize his power might be a bad thing. (Hint: this is not a person)
What is wine or food?
To be careless...
What is heedless?
This person just traveled to Europe, specifically England.
What is Caroline?
This is the place thousands of years ago that the story is set in. It used to be Turkey.
What is ancient Gordium?
This God gave King Midas the ability to turn anything he touches into gold.
Who is Bacchus?
This is the name of the power he was given to turn everything gold. It has King Midas's name in it.
What is the Midas touch?
This means to subtract or take away from a total.
What is deduct?
This person travels over an hour each day to class. His favorite sport is baseball.
Who is Nico?
This is what Bacchus has King Midas do to reverse the wish. It washes the gold off of him.
What is bathe in the River Pactolus?
These wealthy people gathered at the castle and were excited about King Midas's power, then ran when he saw him accidentally turn someone to gold.
Who are the lords and ladies?
What is the moral of the story?
This means to call on someone to be present. This was done in the story to call all of the lords and ladies together.
What is summon?
This classmate has a cousin visiting from France.
Who is Ty?