This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Folk Literature > Folk Literature – Quiz 10 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Folk Literature Quiz 10 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. "The White Snake" is an example of ..... A) Fairy tale. B) Myth. C) Epic. D) Legend. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fairy tale. 2. 3 is the magic number for patterns in folktales A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 3. Choose the best description for the following:Elysian Fields A) River of forgetfulness. B) Where the ancient gods live. C) Main river of the Underworld. D) Paradise. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Paradise. 4. A literary device used; an extreme exaggeration A) Allusion. B) Irony. C) Hyperbole. D) Customs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyperbole. 5. One of my favorite books is Little House on the ..... A) Drought. B) Rapscallion. C) Prarie. D) Genuine. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prarie. 6. Short saying passed down by word of mouth A) Origin Myth. B) Hero Myth. C) Fairy Tale. D) Proverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Proverb. 7. What is a "generation" ? A) A group of kids. B) Any group of people in the same place. C) Groups that live in the same town. D) A group of people born and living during the same time. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A group of people born and living during the same time. 8. What is the result of something else happening? A) Cause. B) Symbol. C) Effect. D) Pattern. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Effect. 9. What happens to Persephone in the story? A) She was kidnapped by Zeus. B) She was taken by her father. C) She disappeared from sight. D) She was kidnapped by the god of the underworld. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) She was kidnapped by the god of the underworld. 10. A story in which a baker becomes a town's hero A) People talk. B) Fable. C) Myth. D) Legend. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) People talk. 11. "Johnny Appleseed" is an example of what type of folk literature? A) Myth. B) Tall tale. C) Fairy tale. D) Myth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tall tale. 12. 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. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 13. Brief stories that often feature animal characters, often ended with a moral A) Fable. B) Epic. C) Myth. D) People talk. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fable. 14. Works, ideas or customs of culture passed by word of mouth from generation to generation A) Folk literature. B) People are spoken. C) Myth. D) Legend. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Folk literature. 15. What is folk literature? A) A traditional story that is popularly thought of as historical, but lacks evidence to verify that the events occurred. B) A type of folk literature that includes magic and the supernatural (wicked witches, demons, monsters, or dragons). C) A traditional story that usually presents supernatural events involving gods and heroes. D) A brief story that frequently includes animal characters and a moral. E) The works, ideas, or customs of a culture passed by word of mouth from generation to generation. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) The works, ideas, or customs of a culture passed by word of mouth from generation to generation. 16. Which of the following words best describe Hades in this story? A) Loyal. B) Selfish. C) Patient. D) Unfeeling. E) Misunderstood. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Selfish. 17. Which theory suggests that folk narratives can be understood through the study of linguistic structures and symbolism? A) Naturalism. B) Jungian Archetypes. C) Structuralism. D) Freudianism. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Structuralism. 18. Folk Literature originates from ..... tradition. A) Friendly. B) National. C) Written. D) Oral. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Oral. 19. The moral of the story is ..... A) A lesson about life that is stated directly, usually at the very end of a work. B) The theme. C) A lesson in the story, usually stated at the beginning. D) The universal theme. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A lesson about life that is stated directly, usually at the very end of a work. 20. The story of Pandora's Box, which includes Zeus, Prometheus, Epimetheus, and Pandora A) Fable. B) Myth. C) Legend. D) Fairy tale. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Myth. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesMovements QuizzesFolk Literature Quiz 1Folk Literature Quiz 2Folk Literature Quiz 3Folk Literature Quiz 4Folk Literature Quiz 5Folk Literature Quiz 6Folk Literature Quiz 7Folk Literature Quiz 8Folk Literature Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books