Folk Tale/Legend/Myth Test
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Do your best! Remember your folk tales, legends, and myths!
- 1.What is the passing of songs, stories, and poems to new generations by word of mouth?
- A.
Legend
- B.
Oral tradition
- C.
Genre
- D.
Folk songs
- 2.What was based on truth in real people or events of the past, then exaggerated, then passed down by word of mouth?
- A.
Myth
- B.
Folk tale
- C.
Legend
- 3.Why did the Emperor not allow Ixtla to marry in Popocatepetl and Ixtlaccihuatl?
- A.
He thought she was too young.
- B.
He was a jealous man who worried about turning over power to another.
- C.
He thought she would love another man more than she loved her own father.
- D.
He was too confused to give his blessing.
- 4.Who killed him/herself in this story?
- A.
Popo
- B.
Ixtla
- C.
Emporer
- D.
Popo and Ixtla
- E.
Ixtla and her father
- 5.Popo decided to go ahead and become the ruler, even without Ixtla at his side.
- A.
True.
- B.
False.
- C.
The story does not tell us.
- 6.Name a trait the Aztecs admired in regard to this story.
- 7.What happens at the end of this story?
- A.
All who committed suicide are resurrected.
- B.
Popo and Ixtla become volcanic mountains.
- C.
The father gets his kingdom back.
- D.
All the liars (about Popo) are put to death by the other warriors.
- 8.Which word means all in agreement?
- A.
Besieged
- B.
Refute
- C.
Edifice
- D.
Unanimous
- 9.Which word means completely defeated?
- A.
Routed
- B.
Besieged
- C.
Decreed
- D.
Edificed
- 10.What was the edifice in the story?
- A.
The obsidian weapon
- B.
The mountain
- C.
The burial pyramid they built
- D.
The king's jealousy
- 11.Did Popo relish the thought of ruling alone, without Ixtla?
- A.
Yes.
- B.
No.
- 12.1. a brief story or poem, usually with animal characters, that teaches a lesson2. an entertaining story composed orally and then passed by word of mouth
- A.
1. legend 2. myth
- B.
1. fable 2. folk tale
- C.
1. folk tale 2. legend
- D.
1. fable 2. myth
- 13.Who was the real Master in the folk take The People Could Fly?
- A.
The narrator
- B.
The woman with the baby
- C.
The slave owner
- D.
Toby
- 14.Why did the lion say the statue proved nothing, in the fable The Lion and The Statue?
- A.
They didn't see the back of it to see who really won.
- B.
The lion crafted it himself.
- C.
Anyone could make the statue show anything he/she wanted.
- D.
Everyone knows lions are always stronger than men (except Benaiah).
- 15.Who wrote both The Lion and The Statue and The Fox and The Crow?
- 16.What does 'outfox' mean?
- A.
Hide
- B.
Find
- C.
Be bigger than
- D.
Trick
- 17.Name one thing Anansi had to bring to Nyame in All Stories Belong to Anansi.
- 18.Why was Anansi able to trick the others so he could capture them?
- A.
He was more clever.
- B.
He was stronger.
- C.
He could make them angry with his words.
- D.
He had help from the sky god.
- 19.What does the prefix -sur NOT mean?
- A.
Over
- B.
Under
- C.
Above
- D.
Beyond
- 20.A myth is a story that explains...
- A.
Someone's opinion.
- B.
Someones scientific study.
- C.
What really happened.
- D.
Natural occurrences.
- 21.What was Phaethon's greatest downfall?
- A.
His looks
- B.
His unhealthy pride
- C.
His fear
- D.
His failures
- 22.Which event in nature is NOT explained in Phaethon, Son of Apollo?
- A.
The dessert in Northern Africa
- B.
The amber sap in trees
- C.
Sunrise and sunset
- D.
Thunder
- 23.Why does Pluto take Persephone to his kingdom in Demeter and Persephone?
- A.
He is trying to get back at Demeter for her cruelty.
- B.
He is lonely in the underworld.
- C.
He falls in love with her after his heart is pierced with an arrow.
- D.
He wants to eventually see a change of seasons.
- 24.Why must Persephone forever return to the underworld?
- A.
She ate pomegranate seeds.
- B.
She is married to Pluto.
- C.
She promised to return yearly.
- D.
She is only truly happy there.
- 25.Who is mortal?
- A.
People
- B.
Gods
- C.
God
- D.
The Greeks only
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