Folktales

Folktales

4th Grade

15 Qs

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Folktales

Folktales

Assessment

Quiz

English

4th Grade

Hard

Created by

Sarah Williams

FREE Resource

15 questions

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1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

This tale's told out!

Why might a folktale have this kind of an ending?

Storytellers sometimes end stories with a rhyme to let listeners know they are finished.

A rhyme teaches a lesson so that people will understand what they need to know.

This is a funny way to end the story.

This ending is faster.

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which of the following is not a characteristic of a FOLK TALE?

Came from generations orally passing them down

Speak to universal messages or themes

More often read than spoken

Tries to make sense of certain parts of different cultures.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which is not a reason why folktales are passed down from generation to generation?

To strengthen the community and provide a common understanding. Stories often reflect the beliefs of the people who tell them.

As a way of making their culture more popular and famous than other cultures.

As a way of providing moral guidance and to show people how they should conduct themselves. The stories also warn of the consequences of not making the right choices.

To pass on history and knowledge, such as the outcome of battles and tales of courage, in ages when many people could not read or write.

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

This is a traditional story that is passed down orally from one person to another

legend

folktale

compare

5.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Folktales

are fiction stories

are non fiction stories

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

in folktales

animals never act like people

only people act like people

animal act like people

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Folktales have a problem and a solution

True

False

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