Voyages of Sindbad (Myth-Folklore Online)

Arabian Nights: Sindbad (Andrew Lang)

Week 6: Middle East - Assignments - Reading - Resources - Images

Reading Quiz

The following is a list of statements which are either True or False. When you take the quiz, you will have 10 of these statements, chosen at random. You may take the quiz up to five times; your average score will be recorded in the Gradebook.

Apply the 80% RULE when you are taking quizzes for these classes. In other words: don't stress about trying to get 100% on these quizzes. The quizzes are here to make sure you are ready to go on to the next activity. If you get 80% or better, you are ready to proceed. If you get less than 80% you need to go back and do the reading again (read more slowly, take notes) and take the quiz again, aiming for at least 80%.

T or F ? Caliph Haroun Al-Raschid ruled over the kingdom of Serendib.
T or F ? There were human bones outside the home of the one-eyed giant.
T or F ? Scheherazade and the sultan listened to Dinarzade's stories every night.
T or F ? Sindbad was buried alive when his wife died.
T or F ? Sindbad the sailor hated Hindbad the porter and made fun of him.
T or F ? The merchants used chunks of meat to retrieve the diamonds.
T or F ? Sindbad told the men to roast and eat the baby rocs.
T or F ? Schahriar executed his wife for the crime of infidelity.
T or F ? Sindbad flew away from the island by clinging to the giant bird.
T or F ? Sindbad had to carry the old man on his back for day after day.
T or F ? Sindbad greedily ate all the food offered to him by the cannibals.
T or F ? Dinarzade and Scheherazade were the daughters of the sultan.
T or F ? When Adam was banished from paradise, he ended up in Serendib.
T or F ? The King of Serendib was afraid of Sindbad and imprisoned him.
T or F ? The rocs and the snakes divided the valley peacefully between them.
T or F ? Sultan Schahriar took a new wife and killed her once a year.
T or F ? Sindbad escaped from the old man by getting him drunk.
T or F ? Sinbad's ship was wrecked when an "island" turned out to be a whale.
T or F ? Sindbad took all kinds of jewels from the funeral cave of the dead.
T or F ? Hindbad was the name of Sindbad's older brother.
T or F ? Sindbad's ship was attacked by two-foot high red dwarves.
T or F ? Sindbad showed the king of Serendib how to make bows and arrows.
T or F ? Once when Sindbad fell asleep his ship sailed away without him.
T or F ? Sindbad found the elephants' graveyard using an ancient map.
T or F ? Sindbad and his men blinded the giant by pouring poison into its eye.

Modern Languages / Anthropology 3043: Folklore & Mythology. Laura Gibbs, Ph.D. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons License. You must give the original author credit. You may not use this work for commercial purposes. If you alter, transform, or build upon this work, you may distribute the resulting work only under a license identical to this one.
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