Title: Chapter 01 - Question 01
1. What did the Greek word mythos originally mean?
a. “digression”
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*b. “authoritative speech” or “story”
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c. “family tree”
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d. “interpretation”
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Title: Chapter 01 - Question 02
2. The word “character” comes from a Greek word meaning _______.
*a.“a certain mental imprint”
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b. “genealogy”
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c. “interpretation”
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d. “system of belief”
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Title: Chapter 01 - Question 03
3. Like all other stories, myths have which three elements?
*a.plot
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b. a fixed theme
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*c. characters
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*d. setting
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Title: Chapter 01 - Question 04
4. The Greeks eventually came to contrast mythos with ______, or “account.”
a. ethos
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b. syntaxis
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c. synthesis
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*d. logos
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Title: Chapter 01 - Question 05
5. _______ are stories of the great deeds of human heroes or heroines.
a. Divine myths
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*b. Legends
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c. Folktales
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d. Fairy tales
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Title: Chapter 01 - Question 06
6. What are some of the features of supernatural beings in divine myths?
*a.They can take on human or animal shapes at will
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*b. They control awesome forces of nature
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*c. Conflicts among them take place on an immense scale
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d. They are all little more than personified abstractions
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Title: Chapter 01 - Question 07
7. Zeus, the Greek sky-god, is depicted in which of the following ways in Greek myths?
a. The creator of all human moral commandments
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*b. The upholder of justice in human communities
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*c. A powerful father
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*d. An often unfaithful husband
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Title: Chapter 01 - Question 08
8. Divine myth is easily confused with _______.
a. fairy tales
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b. modern forms of storytelling such as novels and films
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*c. religion
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d. folktales
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Title: Chapter 01 - Question 09
9. Both _______ and _______ offer explanations of why the world is the way it is, though in different ways.
a.divine myth
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b. archaeology
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c. legend
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*d. science
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Title: Chapter 01 - Question 10
10. Which of the following are among the qualities of the heroes and heroines in legends?
*a.Members of important families regarded themselves as descended from them
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b. They are drawn from all levels of society
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*c. They have extraordinary physical and personal qualities
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*d. They are understood to belong to the very distant past
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Title: Chapter 01 - Question 11
11. Greek myth tells us more about the _______ than it does about life in the distant past.
a. Minoans
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b. preconceptions of modern scholars
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*c. the circumstances and concerns of its transmitters
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d. Greeks’ relationship with other cultures
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Title: Chapter 01 - Question 12
12. Stories like “The Tortoise and the Hare” and “Sinbad the Sailor” could be considered _______.
a. etiological tales
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b. divine myths
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c. sagas
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*d. folktales
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Title: Chapter 01 - Question 13
13. Which of the following qualities are often found in the main characters of folktales?
a. They are always animals
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*b. They are of low social status, at least in the beginning
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*c. They are persecuted or victimized in some way
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d. They are understood to have lived in the not-too-distant past
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Title: Chapter 01 - Question 14
14. Scholars recognize more than ______ folktale types, even in stories from cultures far apart in space and time.
a. seven
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b. seventy
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c. one hundred and seventy
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*d. seven hundred
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Title: Chapter 01 - Question 15
15. What defines a folktale type?
a. There is no agreed-upon definition of a folktale type
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b. The presence of a single, defined folktale motif
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c. The presence of a quest
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*d. A recurring constellation of folktale motifs
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Title: Chapter 01 - Question 16
16. Which of the following is not an example of a folktale motif?
a. “a magic carpet”
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*b. “a brother”
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c. “a magic object that protects against attack”
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d. “a dragon that guards a spring”
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Title: Chapter 01 - Question 17
17. Which of the following are characteristics of a folktale quest?
*a.The hero must overcome a powerful antagonist
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b. The hero is punished by the gods for his hubris
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*c. The hero needs special assistance along the way
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*d. The antagonist initially gets the better of the hero, but he escapes
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Title: Chapter 01 - Question 18
18. The word “mythology” should mean what?
a. “oral narratives”
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*b. “the study of myth”
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c. “[only] Greek and Roman traditional narratives”
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d. “the collective evidence for all myths, in all versions”
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Title: Chapter 01 - Question 19
19. Which of the following is not one of the four categories into which modern scholars group the study of myth?
a. The recording and compilation of a given culture’s myths
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b. The analysis of the role that specific myths play or played within a culture
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*c. The cataloguing of myths that are confirmed by archaeology
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d. The assessment of the lasting human significance of specific myths or groups of myths
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Title: Chapter 01 - Question 20
20. The principal source for the study of ancient myths is _______.
*a. works of literature
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b. archaeology
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c. ancient art
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d. inscriptions from the Late Bronze Age
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Title: Chapter 01 - Question 21
21.
The figure on the left represents Nikê (“victory”) and, in Greek myth, she is best described as _______.
*a. little more than an abstract conception
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b. the spiritual representative of any given Greek community
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c. the preeminent and most characteristic Greek goddess
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d. a goddess with a distinct personality, like Zeus or Hera
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