This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Movements > Folk > Folk Literature – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Folk Literature Quiz 3 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which type of folklore? -Exaggerated tale-Has unbelievable elements but they're told as if they're real-Sometimes used to exaggerate real historical events-Has lesson-Example:Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan A) Tall Tale. B) Folktale. C) Fairy Tale. D) Myth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tall Tale. 2. Which is an example of a folktale? A) The Tortoise and the Hare. B) Where the Girl Rescued Her Brother. C) King Arthur. D) The Stealing of Thor's Hammer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The Tortoise and the Hare. 3. Famous writer of short stories, usually involving animals, that had a moral or a lesson to be learned. A) Dr. Suess. B) Aesop. C) Kellogg. D) Anansi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aesop. 4. English hero that was famed for robbing the rich and giving to the poor. A) Robin Hood. B) LIttle John. C) Friar Tuck. D) Maid Marian. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Robin Hood. 5. Which type of story contains gods and goddesses? A) Fables. B) Myths. C) Folktales. D) Legends. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Myths. 6. A tall tale is a type of: A) Fable. B) Folk Tale. C) Fairy Tale. D) All of These. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Folk Tale. 7. A folktale that is very exaggerated and meant to be funny. (Typically told by American pioneers.) A) Legend. B) Fable. C) Tall tale. D) Fairy tale. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tall tale. 8. A ..... is based on facts that have grown into fiction. A) Myth. B) Legend. C) Epic. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Legend. 9. Which is NOT a Folktale A) Fairytales. B) Fables. C) Tall Tales. D) Text Structures. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Text Structures. 10. Brother Fox has what elements of folk tale in it? A) Supernatural events set in the distant past. B) Talking animals only. C) Talking animals and a lesson about what is important to the culture. D) Supernatural events and talking animals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Talking animals and a lesson about what is important to the culture. 11. Which type of folklore? -Characters are usually people and/or animals-Good vs. Evil-Magic-Repeats phrases-Has number 3 or 7-Starts with "Once Upon a Time ..... "-Happy ending-Example:Cinderella A) Fairy tale. B) Legend. C) Fable. D) Myth. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fairy tale. 12. How did American Folklore begin? A) Oral Tradition. B) Epic Themes. C) Ancient Epics. D) Greek and Roman Mythology. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Oral Tradition. 13. Spiderman, Superman, Batman, all are examples of fictional ..... A) Heros. B) Heroines. C) Myths. D) Fables. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Heros. 14. What part of the story is this:" ..... And they lived happily ever after" ? A) Rising action. B) Climax. C) Denouement. D) Plot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Denouement. 15. Folk tales are often told using what? A) Accents. B) Music in the background. C) Dialect. D) Dim lighting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dialect. 16. Which of these is an origin myth? A) The Twelve Labors of Hercules. B) The Creation. C) Arachne. D) Cinderella. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Arachne. 17. An example of a myth we read in class is ..... A) To the Top of Everest. B) Arachne. C) Grasshopper Logic. D) The Voyage. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Arachne. 18. Which is an example of a legend? A) The Tortoise and the Hare. B) Where the Girl Rescued Her Brother. C) Zeus, King of the Gods. D) The Stealing of Thor's Hammer. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Where the Girl Rescued Her Brother. 19. The story "Echo & Narcissus" is an example of a A) Fable. B) Fairy tale. C) Legend. D) Myth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Myth. 20. Anansi, Coyote and Loki are all examples of what type of character? A) Archetype. B) Villain. C) Super natural. D) Trickster. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Trickster. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesMovements QuizzesFolk Literature Quiz 1Folk Literature Quiz 2Folk Literature Quiz 4Folk Literature Quiz 5Folk Literature Quiz 6Folk Literature Quiz 7Folk Literature Quiz 8Folk Literature Quiz 9Folk Literature Quiz 10 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books