A. Origin tale
B. Trickster tale
C. Hero tale
D. A fable
Related Mcqs:
- Why do you think the uncle was named the “Unnatural Uncle” ?
A. The Eskimo’s felt that family was important and to try to harm a family member was not normal or natural
B. The pronunciation of Eskimo names are impossible so the author decided that this was easy for the reader
C. All Eskimo myths name the antagonist the “Unnatural Uncle”
D. Since this tale is from the oral tradition, the characters had no names and when the myth was written down this is the name that was given - What animal is personified as the trickster in the Winnebago tale ?
A. Bear
B. Coyote
C. Snake
D. Hare - Define trickster tale ?
A. A recurrent thematic element in an artistic or literary work.
B. The struggle found in fiction
C. Giving human qualities to animals or objects
D. A story about a mischievous, supernatural being - What is the author’s purpose in the Zuni origin tale “The Flood” ?
A. To include the tribe’s favorite food, corn, into the myth
B. To warn its youth about the consequences of promiscutiy and other inquities
C. To explain how floods came into existence
D. To explain how earthquakes came into existence - According to the tale, what horrible crime did the ucle commit ?
A. He killed all of the old people
B. He killed all of the female children
C. He killed all of the male children
D. He killed all of the women - According to the myth, why must all things have an end ?
A. The Earthmaker wanted the opportunity to creat a new race of people
B. Mankind would suffer because of a lack of food if there were more people than resources to care for them
C. Hare wished it to be so and that was how it was
D. Grandmother wished it to be so and that was how it was - Which of the following is not a cultural myth we attribute to those earliest Massachusetts colonial settlements at Plymouth and Massachusetts ?
A. Democracy
B. Brother love/charity
C. US Exceptionalism
D. None of the above - According to the myth, how did frogs loose their teeth ?
A. Frogs used to eat rocks and one day a frog ate a rock that was too hard and smashed its teeth.
B. Frogs never had any teeth.
C. Hare hit a frog with a club and burned the frog and cursed it by declaring it would never be able to harm anyone because it threatedned to hunt the hare down with dogs.
D. Grandmother wanted to eat frog leg stew so she captured a frog and extracted its teeth one by one while chanting a Winnebago song, and since then frogs were without teeth. - According to the myth, which of the following are likely hunting preparation rituals that the Winnebago perform ?
A. Burning tobacco as an offering
B. Singing songs
C. Entering into a trance to commune with the spirits of the natural world.
D. All of the above - Who wrote ’The Winter’s Tale ?’
A. George Bernard Shaw
B. John Dryden
C. Christopher Marlowe
D. William Shakespeare
