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1. What are the principal kinds of folktales?
a. novels, romances, and myths
b. myths, legends, and fairy tales
c. essays, legends, and songs
d. fairy tales, poems, and myths
2. Where is the home of the Greek gods?
Click here if you really don't know the answera. Mt. Olympus
b. Mt. McKinley
c. Mt. Everest
d. The Himalayas
3. What day is derived from the Norse god Thor? Hint: It's the day you were given this assignment.
a. Tuesday
b. Monday
c. Friday
d. Thursday
4. What is a mythical Arabian bird?
Linka. phoenix
b. canary
c. dove
d. robin
5. Who was the Greek god of the sea?
They named a submarine after hima. Zeus
b. Apollo
c. Poseidon
d. Mercury
6. Who was known as the Master Lumberjack?
He had a large blue oxa. Paul Bunyan
b. Pecos Bill
c. Bowleg Bill
d. John Henry
7. What is the name of a folk story partly in song or verse?
Don't know? Read paragraph 2 on this link.a. legend
b. tall tale
c. myth
d. cante fable
8. Who wrote Household Tales in the early 19th century?
An easy one.a. Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm
b. Mother Goose
c. Andrew Lang
d. Hans Christian Andersen
9. What nationality was folklorist Andrew Lang? He wrote The Beauty and the Beast and Alladin and the Majic Lamp. What would Disney do without him?
a. Irish
b. Welsh
c. American
d. Scottish
10. What nationality was Hans Christian Andersen?
a. French
b. Swedish
c. Danish
d. English
11. Zeus is from what country's myths?
I'm sure you know this already ... bit if you don't, click here.a. Poland
b. Italy
c. France
d. Greece
12. What was the profession of Casey Jones?
Be sure and read this one. And click here for the song.a. locomotive engineer
b. lawyer
c. baseball player
d. opera singer
13. Who is a trickster-hero in West African folktales?
From my web sitea. Anansi the Spider
b. Billy the Kid
c. Tasham the Lion
d. Kinlaw the Goat
14. What is the German word for fairy tales?
Here is a German-English dictionarya. Vier
b. Urlaub
c. Marchen
d. Bitte
15. Where did the Brer Rabbit stories originate?
The answer.a. West Africa
b. Norway
c. Iran
d. Spain
16. Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and marriage, was called what in Roman mythology?
Bobbie Vinton had a song about ita. Vesta
b. Diana
c. Minerva
d. Venus
17. The line "Fee-fi-fo-fum/I smell the blood of an Englishman" is from what folktale?
You must remember this from your childhood.a. "Old Joe Clark"
b. "Lousy Miner"
c. "The Devil and Tom Walker"
d. "Jack and the Beanstalk"
18. "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was written by whom?
He lived most of his life in Northern California.a. Mark Twain
b. John Steinbeck
c. John Robb
d. Fannie McCormick
19. Who was the Egyptian patron goddess of mariners?
a. Re
b. Osiris
c. Jove
d. Isis
20. Who was the ferryman of the River Styx?
This is the last one I'm helping you on. In fact, it's the last one.a. Charon
b. Chronos
c. Heracles
d. Clio
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