This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Literature > Movements > Traditional > Traditional Literature – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Traditional Literature Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the genre of Folk Tales? A) Realistic Fiction. B) Fantasy. C) Historical Fiction. D) Traditional Literature. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Traditional Literature. 2. The author includes this sentence to- A) Show the importance of the trees. B) Explain why Spider Monkey needed more fruit. C) Tell why Spider Monkey likes to eat a lot. D) Describe how much fruit trees can make. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Show the importance of the trees. 3. Traditional Literature is usually ..... A) Written down. B) Has characters that change. C) Passed down by word of mouth. D) Set in a specific time and place. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Passed down by word of mouth. 4. When Daedalus arrived safely in Sicily he ..... A) Buried his son. B) Rejoiced in his escape. C) Built a temple. D) Made another pair of wings. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Built a temple. 5. This is type of story explains something about the world such as mysterious natural forces, how things came to be, or what gods and goddesses have done. A) Myth. B) Legend. C) Fable. D) Tall Tale. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Myth. 6. What are legends based on? A) Superheroes. B) Science and technology. C) Famous or historically significant people, places, or things. D) Gods and goddesses. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Famous or historically significant people, places, or things. 7. AMIR:[Looking at Ellie.] Great minds think alike! [The two friends break into laughter.]The Author included "great minds think alike" to show Ellie and Amir? A) Read the same book. B) Go to the same event. C) Wake up at the same time. D) Have the same idea. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Have the same idea. 8. What categories try to explain why things happen in the world? A) Legends and Myths. B) Myths and Fairy Tales. C) Tall tales and Fables. D) Folk tale and Legends. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Legends and Myths. 9. The part of a story that ties up loose ends is the ..... A) Setting. B) Exposition. C) Resolution. D) Rising action. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Resolution. 10. Myths are stories that A) Teach about the culture. B) Help to explain things in nature or science that people don't understand. C) Have stories about a real person that is exaggerated. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Help to explain things in nature or science that people don't understand. 11. Fables include all of the following EXCEPT? A) Animals acting like humans. B) Are short. C) Teach a moral or lesson. D) Very long. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Very long. 12. Short story told to teach a lesson/moral. Animals and objects demonstrate personification. A) Fairy tales. B) Myths. C) Fable. D) Tall tale. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fable. 13. Telling stories out loud is called ..... A) Books. B) Story telling. C) Drawings. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Story telling. 14. We read 3 versions of Cinderella . What did they all have that was the same? A) Culture. B) Plot. C) Characters. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Plot. 15. Traditional literature is always fiction, nonfiction, or both fiction and nonfiction. A) Fiction. B) Nonfiction. C) Fiction and nonfiction. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fiction. 16. What is the moral of The Boy Who Cried Wolf? A) Don't be greedy. B) Work hard and plan ahead. C) Liars will not be believed even if they tell the truth. D) Playing tricks on people is FUN. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Liars will not be believed even if they tell the truth. 17. Which type of traditional literature uses a lot of hyperbole? A) Fables. B) Legends. C) Tall tale. D) Mythology. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tall tale. 18. What is made up of fictional stories told by people with a shared culture? A) Fairy Tale. B) Fables. C) Myths. D) Folk Tale. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Folk Tale. 19. Fairy Tales often include A) Frogs, toads, snakes, and rabbits. B) Gods and goddesses, heroes, and magic. C) Talking animals, few characters, lots of action, and a lesson at the end. D) Castles or forests. reoccuring numbers, and a happily ever after ending. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Castles or forests. reoccuring numbers, and a happily ever after ending. 20. A fairy tale usually ends with the saying A) That was fun. B) They lived happily ever after. C) The joke is on you. D) Once upon a time. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They lived happily ever after. 21. Usually very short. A) Fairy Tales. B) Fables. C) Both. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fables. 22. What are the main kinds of folktale? A) Historical fiction, novels, myths, fables. B) Myths, legends, fables, fairy tales, tall tales. C) Fairy tales, poems, myths, fables. D) Legends, historical dictionary, tales, fables. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Myths, legends, fables, fairy tales, tall tales. 23. "How Spider Helped a Fisherman" was what type of Traditional Literature? A) Fairy tale. B) Myth. C) Folktale. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Folktale. 24. "The Tale of the Hummingbird" by Pura Belpre is a A) Myth. B) Legend. C) Fable. D) Fairy tale. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Myth. 25. Daedalus was BEST known as: A) A builder. B) A builder AND an ingenious artist. C) Defying the Gods. D) King Minos's advisor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A builder AND an ingenious artist. 26. Sometimes a legend explains how something came to be, like ..... A) The hare and the tortoise. B) The poinsettia or the bluebonnet. C) The lion and the mouse. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The poinsettia or the bluebonnet. 27. A person in a story who has a strong effect on the plot: A) Minor character. B) Protagonist (main character). C) Antagonist. D) Character traits. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Protagonist (main character). 28. Who tells Taroo not to wait for Alida any longer? A) Meteor. B) Sun. C) Moon. D) Stars. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Moon. 29. What is another name for the lesson of a story? A) Theme. B) Joke. C) Opinion. D) Feedback. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Theme. 30. Definition:Originated from American folk stories with unbelievable elements told as if they were true. A) Fables. B) Tall Tales. C) Fairytales. D) Myths. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tall Tales. 31. This type of conflict is a struggle within a character's mind. It may occur when a character faces a difficult decision or conflicting feelings. A) Character vs. society. B) Internal conflict. C) Character vs. character. D) Character vs. nature. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Internal conflict. 32. Legends are stories that A) Begin "Once upon a time " and have good vs. evil. B) Help to explain things in nature or science that people don't understand. C) Have stories about a real person that is exaggerated. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Have stories about a real person that is exaggerated. 33. Which characteristic of Traditional Literature is represented by the ring finger? (next to the pinky) A) Magic or unrealistic events. B) Flat characters. C) Teaches a moral or lesson. D) No one single author. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Teaches a moral or lesson. 34. Which genre is told to make the narrator seem as if he / she were part of the story? A) Myths. B) Fairy Tales. C) Folk Tales. D) Tall Tales. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Folk Tales. 35. A short saying intended to give advice or presented as a universal truth is called A) Fable. B) Proverb. C) Myth. D) Riddle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Proverb. 36. Tall Tales are stories that A) Teach about the culture. B) Have stories about American history but are REALLY over exaggerated. C) Have stories about a real person that is exaggerated. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Have stories about American history but are REALLY over exaggerated. 37. A fictional, faraway place in a nonspecific time period in the past. A) Fairy Tale. B) Fable. C) Tall Tale. D) Myth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fairy Tale. 38. Definition:Similar to folktales, they have roots in the oral tradition; they also include magical elements. (ex:witches, dragons, magic spells, trolls) A) Tall Tales. B) Legends. C) Myths. D) Fairytales. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fairytales. 39. Deals with real people, places, and events A) Autobiography. B) Biography. C) Nonfiction. D) Fiction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Nonfiction. 40. Daedalus made wings for himself and his son in order to ..... A) Teach his son to fly. B) Be more like the gods. C) Escape from the island of Crete. D) Show that he was an ingenious artist. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Escape from the island of Crete. 41. The story of a person's life told by the same person A) Biography. B) Literary nonfiction. C) Autobiography. D) Formal essay. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Autobiography. 42. Examples of this type of Trad. Lit are:Cinderella, Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks and the Three Bears. A) Legend. B) Myth. C) Fable. D) Fairy tale. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fairy tale. 43. Examples of this type of Trad. Literature are:The Lion and the Mouse, Fox and the Crow, The Boy Who Cried Wolf. A) Fable. B) Myth. C) Legend. D) Fairy tale. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fable. 44. "The Grasshopper and the Ants" is an example of what Traditional Literature story? A) Myth. B) Fairy Tales. C) Fable. D) Legend. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fable. 45. An example of myth is: A) The Hare and the Tortoise; The boy who cried wolf; The Lion and the Mouse. B) Mulan, The Princess and the Frog; Frozen. C) Greek gods and goddesses, Inca gods and goddesses, Mayan gods and goddeses. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Greek gods and goddesses, Inca gods and goddesses, Mayan gods and goddeses. 46. A simple traditional song or poem for children is called a A) Fairy tale. B) Nursery rhyme. C) Proverb. D) Tall tale. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nursery rhyme. 47. This is type of story is set in a faraway place, often ruled by kings and queens; the characters tend to be either good or evil. They usually contain has magic or a magic helper A) Myth. B) Legend. C) Tall Tale. D) Fairy Tale. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fairy Tale. 48. Passed down by oral tradition A) Myths. B) Folk Tales. C) Tall Tales. D) Legends. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Folk Tales. 49. What types of Traditional Literature have seek to explain things in nature or natural phenomenon? A) Myths. B) Legends. C) Fairy Tales. D) Fables. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Myths. 50. Name the type of sentence. That boy runs faster than a cheetah! A) Hyperbole. B) Personification. C) Simile. D) Simile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyperbole. 51. Answer the following riddle:What always runs but never walks, often murmurs, never talks, has a bed but never sleeps, has a mouth but never eats? A) Centipede. B) River. C) Baby. D) Mountain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) River. 52. Which of the following is an example of a myth? A) Hercules. B) Cinderella. C) The Tortoise and the Hare. D) Three Little Pigs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hercules. 53. What is a THEME for "The Tale of the Hummingbird" ? A) Cheating doesn't pay off in the end. B) Kindness wins. C) We all have to learn to live with our choices. D) Hummingbirds are kind creatures. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) We all have to learn to live with our choices. 54. An example of an internal conflict, which is a struggle that occurs within a character's mind, is CHARACTER VS ..... A) Self. B) Character. C) Nature. D) Society. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Self. 55. What category of Traditional Literature explains natural phenomena (nature) WITHOUT gods and goddesses? A) Myth. B) Legend. C) Fairy Tale. D) Tall Tale. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Legend. 56. The bad person in a fairy tale is called? A) Evil. B) Bad Guy. C) The villian. D) Mr. Nice Guy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The villian. 57. An exaggerated and humorous story where the character is larger than life. A) Tall tale. B) Myth. C) Fairy tale. D) Fable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tall tale. 58. What is the moral (lesson) of The Tortoise and The Hare? A) Don't be greedy. B) Always tell the truth. C) Slow and steady wins the race. D) Be kind to others. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Slow and steady wins the race. 59. A person who is admired for great or brave acts or fine qualities A) Hero. B) Fairy tale. C) Superman. D) Character. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hero. 60. What is the point of view of the following passage? "Raina's bicycle broke down yet again on the way to soccer practice." A) First person point of view. B) Third person limited point of view. C) Third person omniscient point of view. D) Second person point of view. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Third person limited point of view. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesMovements QuizzesEnglish Literature QuizzesTraditional Literature Quiz 1Traditional Literature Quiz 2Traditional Literature Quiz 3Traditional Literature Quiz 5 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books