CLC 106 FENNO 2026 STUDY GUIDE QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Claude Levi-Strauss thought - ✔✔myths attempt to mediate between binary
oppositions (savage/civilized, raw/cooked, life/death), that convey meaning not through
content, but rather through abstract, timeless structure
✔✔Giambattista Vico - ✔✔the founder of the philosophy of culture and the philosophy
of the mythology
✔✔Edward Taylor - ✔✔
✔✔Charles Darwin - ✔✔
✔✔Hittites - ✔✔Indo-European warrior people in central Anatolia, their capital was
Hattusas
✔✔Babylonians - ✔✔fashioned a temporary political unity from the scattered cities of
Southern Mesopotamia
✔✔ ritual - ✔✔traditional pattern of action
✔✔folktale - ✔✔traditional tale, story whose actors are ordinary people or animals. used
to justify customary patterns of behavior
✔✔legend - ✔✔"things that must be read" stories of famous early men and women
✔✔myth - ✔✔traditional tales about gods and heroes which serve various functions
within society, from providing entertainment ... to encoding the meaning of life.
✔✔religion - ✔✔belief and the course of action that follows, in a set of codes or
deity(ies)
✔✔Apollonius of Rhodes wrote - ✔✔the Argonautica - quest for the golden fleece
✔✔Homer wrote - ✔✔the Iliad and the Odyssey about the Trojan war
✔✔Hesiod wrote - ✔✔the Theogony about the origin of the gods
✔✔Vergil - ✔✔the Aeneid about an early immigrant to Italy
✔✔Ovid - ✔✔wrote the Metamorphoses about all of mythical history
✔✔philosophy - ✔✔rational inquiry into the natural world and human ethics
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Claude Levi-Strauss thought - ✔✔myths attempt to mediate between binary
oppositions (savage/civilized, raw/cooked, life/death), that convey meaning not through
content, but rather through abstract, timeless structure
✔✔Giambattista Vico - ✔✔the founder of the philosophy of culture and the philosophy
of the mythology
✔✔Edward Taylor - ✔✔
✔✔Charles Darwin - ✔✔
✔✔Hittites - ✔✔Indo-European warrior people in central Anatolia, their capital was
Hattusas
✔✔Babylonians - ✔✔fashioned a temporary political unity from the scattered cities of
Southern Mesopotamia
✔✔ ritual - ✔✔traditional pattern of action
✔✔folktale - ✔✔traditional tale, story whose actors are ordinary people or animals. used
to justify customary patterns of behavior
✔✔legend - ✔✔"things that must be read" stories of famous early men and women
✔✔myth - ✔✔traditional tales about gods and heroes which serve various functions
within society, from providing entertainment ... to encoding the meaning of life.
✔✔religion - ✔✔belief and the course of action that follows, in a set of codes or
deity(ies)
✔✔Apollonius of Rhodes wrote - ✔✔the Argonautica - quest for the golden fleece
✔✔Homer wrote - ✔✔the Iliad and the Odyssey about the Trojan war
✔✔Hesiod wrote - ✔✔the Theogony about the origin of the gods
✔✔Vergil - ✔✔the Aeneid about an early immigrant to Italy
✔✔Ovid - ✔✔wrote the Metamorphoses about all of mythical history
✔✔philosophy - ✔✔rational inquiry into the natural world and human ethics
