A. Incest
B. Life rituals with blood
C. The fear of dying
D. The fear of being buried alive
Related Mcqs:
- What is the origin of the vampire myth ?
A. Stoker’s “Dracula”
B. Beckford’s “Vathek”
C. Ancient civilizations worldwide
D. Walpole’s “The Castle of Otranto” - 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, 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 - 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 - What type of myth is the tale “The Jealous Uncle” ?
A. Origin tale
B. Trickster tale
C. Hero tale
D. A fable - 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. - Which of the following terms is traditionally associated with the male Gothic ?
A. Body transformation
B. Horror
C. Terror
D. The uncanny - All of the following are associated with Gothic architecture EXCEPT_______________?
A. Vaulted ceilings
B. The Middle Ages
C. Complicated floor plans
D. Neo-classicism - Which of the following theorists is associated with formalism ?
A. Viktor Shklovsky
B. Cleanth Brooks
C. Judith Butler
D. Mikhail Bakhtin - Which of the following inventions is associated with the rise in literacy ?
A. the triptych
B. the flail
C. the rudder
D. the letter press
