English Stories (Myth-Folklore Online)

English Fairy Tales (Joseph Jacobs)

Week 12: England - Assignments - Reading - Resources - Images

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 ? Jacobs considered "Jack and the Beanstalk" to be a distinctively English story.
T or F ? Jacobs was interested in English "folk" traditions.
T or F ? The railways and telegraph helped strengthen and spread English folk traditions.
T or F ? Joseph Jacobs was Andrew Lang's nephew.
T or F ? Jacobs wrote his stories to be read by adults only.
T or F ? Joseph Jacobs spent most of his life in England.
T or F ? Jacobs concluded that he had collected every possible English fairy tale.
T or F ? Jacobs collected stories that were preserved in the form of ballads.
T or F ? Jacobs used the term fairy tale because of its great scientific precision.
T or F ? Joseph Jacobs was born in Australia.
T or F ? Jacobs saw that some fairy tales were commonly found throughout Europe.
T or F ? More fairy tales had been collected from England than any other country.
T or F ? Jacobs taught at the Jewish Theological Union in New York.
T or F ? Jacobs collected his stories exclusively from oral sources.
T or F ? Jacobs believed that many European fairy tales had originated in India.
T or F ? Jacobs was born in 1904.
T or F ? Perrault was a famous collector of French fairy tales.
T or F ? Jacobs considered "Childe Rowland" to be a distinctively French story.
T or F ? Joseph Jacobs was the editor of the journal Mythology.
T or F ? Although Jacobs was Jewish, he never studied Jewish history or literature.
T or F ? Jacobs considered the French fairy tales to be more elegant than the English ones.
T or F ? Jacobs died in 1966.
T or F ? Jacobs lived during the Victorian era in England.
T or F ? Jacobs worked as an editor of the Encyclopedia Brittanica.
T or F ? Jacobs saw German fairy tales becoming more popular in England than English ones.

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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