What Causes the Death of Semele

Multiple Choice

What causes the death of Semele?

A) She is persuaded by Hera that her unseen lover is really Zeus, so she demands to know the truth. When she learns that Hera was right, she dies of shock.
B) Hera convinces Semele that her lover who visits her in the dark is an ogre. Semele persuades her lover to show himself as he really is, and when Zeus appears in a blaze of light, she is incinerated.
C) She has spurned the advances of Zeus and is struck down with his thunderbolt.
D) Being a mortal woman, she grows old and dies, and nothing her lover Zeus can do will make her young again.