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Folklore
Panchantantra
Mahbharata
Thousand and One Nights
African Folklore
100
Stories passed down orally to entertain, teach, preserve, and explain.
What is folklore.
100
Means 5 chapters.
What is Panchantantra
100
World's longest epic.
What is the Mahabharata.
100
Deals with marriage and execution.
What is the Thousand and One Nights.
100
Most famous trickster.
What is anasi.
200
Commonly depicted as an animal in stories.
What is a trickster.
200
Not having desire for worldly possesions.
What is Nirvana.
200
The wife of all five Pandava brothers.
What is Drapudi
200
Arabian Nights
What is another name for the Thousand and One Nights?
200
What takes a griot 50 years?
What is their training to become a master griot.
300
Two common story types.
What is escape stories and trickster tales.
300
Which side do you follow on your Karma.
What is your bad or negative Karma.
300
The five protagonists in the frame story.
What is the Pandavas.
300
She tells the stories to the king at night.
What is Scheherazade.
300
Professional African Storytellers/Musicians.
What is Griots.
400
A common theme in world literature.
What is the banishment of heroes.
400
Five words associated with the panchantantra
What is king, priest, 3 foolish sons.
400
The antagonist in the frame story.
What is the Koravas.
400
What does the sultan learn from Scheherazade's stories?
What is how to be a better king and person.
400
Two forms anansi appears in.
What is spider-man, and spider.
500
The four purposes of folklore.
What is to entertain, instruct, explain, preserve.
500
Who is telling the stories in the Panchantantra?
What is the Brahmin or priest.
500
The result of the Pandavas gambling.
What is banishment for 12 years.
500
Number of stories open during the fisherman and the jinee.
What is 4 stories.
500
An alternate job for griots
What is predicting the future