Background 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 ? Stith Thompson studied folktales, but he carefully
avoided studying myths. - T or F ? Benfey
argued that European fairy tales were derived from ancient Indian sources.
- T or F ? Thompson's
definition of "motif" is a masterpiece of scientific precision.
- T or F ? People
in the 19th century did not notice the similarities between different folktales.
- T or F ? Stith
Thompson was a professor at Indiana University.
- T or F ? You
can find the works of both Stith Thompson and Antti Aarne in the OU library.
- T or F ? 19th-century
scholars often proposed historical explanations for why stories were similar.
- T or F ? Denmark
and Estonia are both countries in northern Europe.
- T or F ? Stith
Thompson is famous for his "Motif-Index" of folktales and myths.
- T or F ? "God
of fate in shape of golden frog" is an example of an Aarne-Thompson "tale-type."
- T or F ? Stith
Thompson merged Antti Aarne's "tale-types" with his own "motif-index".
- T or F ? Hans
Christian Andersen exemplifies the 19th-century scholarly approach to fairy
tales.
- T or F ? European
imperialism resulted in folktales being collected from all over the world.
- T or F ? Antti
Aarne first published his work on "tale-types" in 1810.
- T or F ? "God
of fate in shape of golden frog" is a "motif" in Thompson's
"motif index."
- T or F ? Stith
Thompson was born in 1955.
- T or F ? The
Brothers Grimm exemplify the 19th-century scholarly approach to fairy tales.
- T or F ? "Tale
types" are used to classify folktales and myths from around the world.
- T or F ? Folklorists
no longer use the Aarne-Thompson "tale-types."
- T or F ? 19th-century
folktale collections are usually written in distinctive local dialects.
- T or F ? Antti
Aarne was Finnish.
- T or F ? "Motif
indexing" is a way to catalog folktales and myths from around the world.
- T or F ? Andrew
Lang always provides ethnographic information about the stoyteller.
- T or F ? All
myths and folktales are written down, sooner or later.
- T or F ? The
Brothers Grimm used Stith Thompson's motif index to classify their stories.
