Theories Of Myth Interpretation Exam Prep Chapter.25

Chapter 25: Theories of Myth Interpretation

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 25 - Question 01

1. Who complained in the sixth century BC about the ethical weakness of the Olympian gods, and insisted that popular notions about them must be wrong?

a. Xenophanes

b. Anaximander

c. Diodorus of Sicily

d. Arrian

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Title: Chapter 25 - Question 02

2. Which ancient author banned poets and their lying stories in his vision of the ideal state?

a. Menander

b. Aristotle

c. Sophocles

d. Plato

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Title: Chapter 25 - Question 03

3. Roman writers who followed Stoic philosophy argued that Juno was really _______ because the Greek and Latin word for _______ sounded like “Hera”?

a. a mare

b. a cave

c. air

d. fire

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Title: Chapter 25 - Question 04

4. _______ is a Greek word that means “something put together with something else.”

a. Simile

b. Allegory

c. Symbolism

d. Metaphor

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Title: Chapter 25 - Question 05

5. What writer of the later sixth century BC was said to have been the first to use the allegorical method?

a. Euhemerus

b. Solon

c. Thales

d. Theagenes

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Title: Chapter 25 - Question 06

6. The interpretation of Cronus as “time” illustrates how the Stoics used _______ to reinforce allegory?

a. archaeology

b. metaphor

c. euhemerism

d. etymology

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Title: Chapter 25 - Question 07

7. Which of the following is the thesis that gods were once humans?

a. euhemerism

b. alchemy

c. Neoplatonism

d. etymology

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Title: Chapter 25 - Question 08

8. The special contribution of which ancient author was to explain myths as originating from a misunderstanding of language?

a. Palaephatus

b. Plato

c. Aristotle

d. Plutarch

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Title: Chapter 25 - Question 09

9. Which of the following became the major philosophical movement of the final centuries of the pagan era (AD 200–500)?

a. Rationalism

b. Stoicism

c. Neoplatonism

d. Cynicism

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Title: Chapter 25 - Question 10

10. Plotinus saw a correspondence between Intellect and _______.

a. Uranus

b. Cronus

c. Zeus

d. Poseidon

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Title: Chapter 25 - Question 11

11. Porphyry produced an extremely complex interpretation of Homer’s description of the _______, arguing that it represents the universe because it is generated from matter and is natural.

a. the cave of the Cyclops

b. the cave of the nymphs on Ithaca

c. the island of the Phaeacians

d. the grove of Calypso

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Title: Chapter 25 - Question 12

12. As direct acquaintance with classical culture and literature declined, myths became known principally through such influential handbooks as the Mythologies of _______, a sixth-century AD North African Christian.

a. Porphyry

b. Botticelli

c. Plotinus

d. Fulgentius

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Title: Chapter 25 - Question 13

13. Botticelli’s painting of the birth of Venus reflects which the ideas of which philosophical school?

a. Epicureanism

b. Stoicism

c. Neoplatonism

d. Pyrrhonism

Type: multiple response question

Title: Chapter 25 - Question 14

14. Which of the following are, according to Giambattista Vico, the three phases in the great cycle of history?

a. Age of Man

b. Age of Nature

c. Age of Gods

d. Age of Heroes

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Title: Chapter 25 - Question 15

15. Sir James Frazer’s book _______ is often ranked as one of the most influential works of modern times.

a. The Golden Bough

b. The Interpretation of Dreams

c. The Typology of the Folktale

d. The Hero with a Thousand Faces

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 25 - Question 16

16. Bronislaw Malinowski is the founder of which theory of myth?

a. Solar mythology

b. The ritual theory

c. The charter theory

d. Structuralism

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Title: Chapter 25 - Question 17

17. Max Müller is the founder of which theory of myth?

a. Solar mythology

b. The ritual theory

c. The charter theory

d. Structuralism

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 25 - Question 18

18. The Oedipus Complex is a famous theory put forth by _______.

a. Claude Lévi-Strauss

b. Vladimir Propp

c. Carl Jung

d. Sigmund Freud

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 25 - Question 19

19. The highly influential theory of structuralism is particularly associated with _______, who wrote that “mythical thought always works from the awareness of oppositions toward their progressive mediation.”

a. Claude Lévi-Strauss

b. Vladimir Propp

c. Carl Jung

d. Sigmund Freud

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 25 - Question 20

20. Walter Burkert argues that the structures that inform myth reflect biological or cultural _______.

a. oppositions

b. mediations

c. programs of action

d. repressions

Type: multiple choice question

Title: Chapter 25 - Question 21

21.

This representation of Oedipus is taken from Atalanta Fugiens (1617), a work by _______ in which he argues for reading myths as alchemical allegories.

a. Sandro Botticelli

b. Bernard Fontenelle

c. Michael Maier

d. Andrew Lang