Folk Literature Quiz 16 (20 MCQs)

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1. Choose the best description for the following:Triptolemus

Correct Answer: E) Youth who knows where Persephone was taken.

2. The sharing of stories through word of mouth is called

Correct Answer: A) Oral tradition.

3. Adventures of a hero

Correct Answer: B) Epic.

4. What type of literature is "Robin Hood"

Correct Answer: D) Legend.

5. A folktale reflects the ..... of the culture it was written for.

Correct Answer: C) Values.

6. What type of literature is "Pandora's Box"

Correct Answer: B) Myth.

7. What type of folk literature is popularly believed to be true, but it isn't proven to be true?

Correct Answer: B) Legend.

8. "This Land is Your Land" is an example of what type of folk literature?

Correct Answer: A) People sang.

9. Stories being passed down by word of mouth

Correct Answer: D) Oral tradition.

10. What is a brief story or poem that teaches a lesson or moral?

Correct Answer: D) Fable.

11. Folk Literature the features a central hero and relies on hyperbole is called what?

Correct Answer: C) Tall Tale.

12. Giving human qualities to something not human

Correct Answer: B) Personification.

13. Demeter's reaction to her daughter's kidnapping causes suffering among which innocent group?

Correct Answer: A) Humans.

14. What is the stated or implied lesson learned from a story, specifically a fable?

Correct Answer: B) Moral.

15. Tells a story of good vs. evil. May include magic, royalty and a setting of a castle or forest. (example:Cinderella)

Correct Answer: C) Fairy tale.

16. A ..... is based on facts with fictional details added as it was passed on. It is difficult to separate fact from fiction.

Correct Answer: C) Legend.

17. What type of figurative language is "in the nick of time" an example of?

Correct Answer: B) Idiom.

18. "The old car coughed and sputtered to life when I turned the key in the ignition" is an example of:

Correct Answer: C) Personification.

19. What type of folk literature usually has animals that speak and teaches a moral?

Correct Answer: A) Fable.

20. What are the three purposes of folk stories?

Correct Answer: C) Teach, Explain, Entertain.