The Nature Of Myth Ch.1 Test Bank Answers 9th Edition

Chapter 1: The Nature of Myth

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 - Question 01

1. What did the Greek word mythos originally mean?

a. “digression”

b. “authoritative speech” or “story”

c. “family tree”

d. “interpretation”

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 - Question 02

2. The word “character” comes from a Greek word meaning _______.

a. “a certain mental imprint”

b. “genealogy”

c. “interpretation”

d. “system of belief”

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 01 - Question 03

3. Like all other stories, myths have which three elements?

a. plot

b. a fixed theme

c. characters

d. setting

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 - Question 04

4. The Greeks eventually came to contrast mythos with ______, or “account.”

a. ethos

b. syntaxis

c. synthesis

d. logos

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 - Question 05

5. _______ are stories of the great deeds of human heroes or heroines.

a. Divine myths

b. Legends

c. Folktales

d. Fairy tales

Type: multiple response question

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

b. They control awesome forces of nature

c. Conflicts among them take place on an immense scale

d. They are all little more than personified abstractions

Type: multiple response question

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

b. The upholder of justice in human communities

c. A powerful father

d. An often unfaithful husband

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 - Question 08

8. Divine myth is easily confused with _______.

a. fairy tales

b. modern forms of storytelling such as novels and films

c. religion

d. folktales

Type: multiple choice question

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

b. archaeology

c. legend

d. science

Type: multiple response question

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

b. They are drawn from all levels of society

c. They have extraordinary physical and personal qualities

d. They are understood to belong to the very distant past

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 - Question 11

11. Greek myth tells us more about the _______ than it does about life in the distant past.

a. Minoans

b. preconceptions of modern scholars

c. the circumstances and concerns of its transmitters

d. Greeks’ relationship with other cultures

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 - Question 12

12. Stories like “The Tortoise and the Hare” and “Sinbad the Sailor” could be considered _______.

a. etiological tales

b. divine myths

c. sagas

d. folktales

Type: multiple response question

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

b. They are of low social status, at least in the beginning

c. They are persecuted or victimized in some way

d. They are understood to have lived in the not-too-distant past

Type: multiple choice question

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

b. seventy

c. one hundred and seventy

d. seven hundred

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 - Question 15

15. What defines a folktale type?

a. There is no agreed-upon definition of a folktale type

b. The presence of a single, defined folktale motif

c. The presence of a quest

d. A recurring constellation of folktale motifs

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 - Question 16

16. Which of the following is not an example of a folktale motif?

a. “a magic carpet”

b. “a brother”

c. “a magic object that protects against attack”

d. “a dragon that guards a spring”

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 01 - Question 17

17. Which of the following are characteristics of a folktale quest?

a. The hero must overcome a powerful antagonist

b. The hero is punished by the gods for his hubris

c. The hero needs special assistance along the way

d. The antagonist initially gets the better of the hero, but he escapes

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 - Question 18

18. The word “mythology” should mean what?

a. “oral narratives”

b. “the study of myth”

c. “[only] Greek and Roman traditional narratives”

d. “the collective evidence for all myths, in all versions”

Type: multiple choice question

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

b. The analysis of the role that specific myths play or played within a culture

c. The cataloguing of myths that are confirmed by archaeology

d. The assessment of the lasting human significance of specific myths or groups of myths

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 01 - Question 20

20. The principal source for the study of ancient myths is _______.

a. works of literature

b. archaeology

c. ancient art

d. inscriptions from the Late Bronze Age

Type: multiple choice question

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

b. the spiritual representative of any given Greek community

c. the preeminent and most characteristic Greek goddess

d. a goddess with a distinct personality, like Zeus or Hera