Myths & Legends Midterm Review

A Myth is...

• a children's story about magical and imaginary beings and lands

• stories of a community passed on through word of mouth

• a story explaining natural or social phenomenon, moral lesson or religious practice

• a funny or scary  story circulated as though true

Folklore is...

• a children's story about magical and imaginary beings and lands

• stories, artwork or history of a community passed on through word of mouth

• a story regarded as historical but unauthenticated

• a funny or scary  story circulated as though true

An Urban Legend is...

• a children's story about magical and imaginary beings and lands

• a funny or scary  story circulated as though true

• a story regarded as historical but unauthenticated

• a story that teaches a moral or lesson

A Legend is...

• a story regarded as historical but unauthenticated

• a children's story about magical and imaginary beings and lands

• a story that teaches a moral or a lesson

• the study of animals whose existence is disupted

A Fairy Tale is...

• a story animated by Walt Disney

• a story that teaches a moral tale or lesson

• a children's story about magical and imaginary beings and lands

• a fairy with extra vertebrae

Select all that are true about the question:

 Which of the following is true about mythology?

• it seeks to explain things about the world we live in

• it is a form of entertainment

• it inspired religions of Ancient and Modern civilizations

• it is only told by the Ancient Greeks

What did the Greeks think was at the very beginning of things?

• a turtle

• chaos

• The Big Bang Theory

• a peanut

How did Zeus punish Prometheus?

• he was trapped inside a cave with no access to the outer world

• he had to hold the world on his back forever

• he was forced to be sick with the flu for all of eternity

•  he was bound to a rock where an eagle would eat his  liver.

Every group with a sense of its own identity shares folk traditions, which are things people learn to do through...

• oral communication and example

• going to Chartertech

• reading and writing

• studying Cryptozoology

Select all the things that folklore can take the form of.

• history

• artwork

• storytelling

• music