WONDER #981: What Is an Urban Legend?
Question 1 of 3
What do you call a modern fictional tale passed from one person to another that’s told as the truth while being mostly, if not totally, false?
- myth
- tall tale
- urban legend
- news
Question 2 of 3
What do you call an urban legend meant to warn about certain types of people or behavior?
- cautionary tale
- nursery rhyme
- warning legend
- suburban legend
Question 3 of 3
Which of the following is an example of a popular urban legend?
- the Good Samaritan
- the vanishing hitchhiker
- both (A) and (B)
- neither (A) nor (B)
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