Folk Literature Quiz 12 (20 MCQs)

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1. What happens to Persephone in the story?

Correct Answer: D) She was kidnapped by the god of the underworld.

2. A story in which a baker becomes a town's hero

Correct Answer: A) People talk.

3. "Johnny Appleseed" is an example of what type of folk literature?

Correct Answer: B) Tall tale.

4. One common type of folk tale is the trickster tale. The trickster character can be a human or an animal with speech and other human traits.

Correct Answer: A) True.

5. Brief stories that often feature animal characters, often ended with a moral

Correct Answer: A) Fable.

6. Works, ideas or customs of culture passed by word of mouth from generation to generation

Correct Answer: A) Folk literature.

7. What is folk literature?

Correct Answer: E) The works, ideas, or customs of a culture passed by word of mouth from generation to generation.

8. Which of the following words best describe Hades in this story?

Correct Answer: B) Selfish.

9. Which theory suggests that folk narratives can be understood through the study of linguistic structures and symbolism?

Correct Answer: C) Structuralism.

10. Folk Literature originates from ..... tradition.

Correct Answer: D) Oral.

11. The moral of the story is .....

Correct Answer: A) A lesson about life that is stated directly, usually at the very end of a work.

12. The story of Pandora's Box, which includes Zeus, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Pandora

Correct Answer: B) Myth.

13. A fable teaches a ..... which is stated at the ..... of the work.

Correct Answer: D) Moral, end.

14. What type of figurative language is "The dolphin danced on the dance floor" an example of?

Correct Answer: C) Personification.

15. Brief stories passed by word-of-mouth from generation to generation

Correct Answer: B) People Talk.

16. Writers IMITATED the writing styles of their teachers during what period?

Correct Answer: C) Apprenticeship.

17. A message repeated across many cultures and time periods

Correct Answer: B) Universal theme.

18. The ..... prankster eyed his classmates trying to decide who his next victim would be.

Correct Answer: C) Ornery.

19. The worst ..... that happened was the one that happened 20 years ago.

Correct Answer: C) Drought.

20. A story describing the enormous Paul Bunyan and the footprints he made to ctreate 10, 000 lakes

Correct Answer: A) Legend.