CLT Exam
"Cupid and Psyche" - correct answer-Psyche is so beautiful that she takes some of Venus'
followers. Venus tries to get her to fall in love with a poor man through her son Cupid's
arrows but he hits himself and falls in love with Psyche. Cupid and Psyche get married and
Psyche lives in his mansion but only sees him at night not in his true form. Her sisters think
she is married to a monster and tells her to see his true form and try to kill him. She does
and Cupid flies away and makes his house disappear. The only way to get him back is
through Venus who puts her through three impossible tasks that she does through the help
of immortal gods. She wins over Venus and becomes deified and they live happily ever after.
(the story is embedded in the story of the Golden Ass)
"The Crow's Nest" - correct answer-(Hungarian folktale) one mother has a daughter and son,
she kills the son for no reason, makes stewed cabbage out of son, daughter puts the bones
in a tree, bone become a boy/crow hybrid, and then the bird hybrid gets three gifts and kills
the mother with the millstone
"The Juniper Tree" - correct answer-(german folktale) first wife dies when son is born,
second wife has daughter, second wife kills son by beheading him, makes black pudding
from son's flesh, daughter named Marlinchen puts brother bones under tree, bird does the
song gets three gifts and kills the step mother, and comes back from the death after he kills
the mother
"The Rose Tree" - correct answer-(English folktale) first wife has a daughter, second wife
has a son, second wife kills the daughter, made into stewed liver, son buries sister's bones
under a tree, white bird appears, sings a song gets there gifts
"The Singing, Soaring Lark" - correct answer-(German folktale) father goes on a trip and his
favorite daughter wants him to bring back the singing soaring lark. The father finds the lark
but finds that the it is the lion's possession. In return for not killing him for not taking the lark
the father trades the first that meets him back home for the lark. His most favorite daughter
is the first one there and then marries the lion who really is an enchanted prince who is only
a lion during the day. If he is exposed to light he turns into a dove for seven years and that is
what happens when they go to her sister's wedding. In her quest to find her husband she
gets three magical items (nut, egg, and casket) in which she uses to defeat her husband's
capturer who is a princess dragon. Uses the casket and egg to wake up the husband and
uses the nut the create a tree for the griffin to fly away. They are reunited and find a son
waiting for them in their home.
Aarne-Thompson - correct answer-Two researches that indexed all the folktale types and
sorted them into there types accordingly
Affan - correct answer-sage who guides Buluqiya into Yamlika's realm and across the seven
seas but dies when Buluqiya says the spell wrong to unlock the ring
, Akan - correct answer-west african people who developed the Anansi myths (most like the
Ashanti people of Ghana
Akkadian - correct answer-language that the epic of Gilgamesh was written in
Allah - correct answer-islamic singular god much like Yahweh
Anansi as a spider - correct answer-looking for food in the forest and hears spirit women
detaching their heads to catch fish and they tell Anansi to sing a song to detach his head but
only sing it when they are together; however, Anansi sings it while walking home and his
head falls off and his children cannot get it back on so they attached it to his butt and
attached his eyes in the front so that is why spiders have large behinds
Anasi - correct answer-west african trickster god who is liminal figure meaning he is able to
go in the animal, human, and divine realms; also a culture hero tied with the forest and
language
Anglo-Saxon - correct answer-people that inhabited england after the romans left and ended
with the battle of Hastings where the normandy invasion starts (400-1066 CE); Germanic
people much like the Nords
Antoine Galland - correct answer-
apsu - correct answer-underground layer of water where all fresh water comes from;
Urshanabi takes Gilgamesh there to find the plant that will restore Gilgamesh's youth
Arabian Nights - correct answer-Scheherazade tells the Sultan king parts of stories for 1001
nights to end the reign of terror
Arabic - correct answer-the language the thousand and one nights was written in
Baduasemanpensa - correct answer-true name of Nyame's daughter and whoever finds out
her name first and tells Name gets to marry her
Basnak Dau - correct answer-the enchanted price who Tulsa marries and the snake king by
the end of the story
Bear - correct answer-goes on a fishing trip with raven and cormorant and is castrated to
death and Raven kills his wife as well
Belit-ili - correct answer-the Babylonian creator god who formed Gilgamesh's body into
god-like characteristics
Beowulf - correct answer-Geat warrior who is the son of Echtheow and nephew of king
Hyglac. He kills Grendel with his bare hands and kills Grendel's mother with a giant's sword,
and protects his homeland by killing a dragon that sitting on a huge treasure, that treasure
was then used in his funeral pyre
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