Question 1: Urban legends are sometimes repeated in news stories and, in recent years, distributed by ________. | |||
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Question 2: The ________ had a service called Hoaxbusters that dealt with all sorts of computer-distributed hoaxes and legends. | |||
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Question 3: Urban Legends at the ________ | |||
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Question 4: the works of Claude Lévi-Strauss, Ernst Cassirer, Mircea Eliade, Joseph Campbell, ________, and Northrop Frye for various interpretations). | |||
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Question 5: Rather, the term is used to differentiate modern legend from traditional ________ in preindustrial times. | |||
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Question 6: [7] As in the case of ________, these narratives are believed because they construct and reinforce the worldview of the group within which they are told, or “because they provide us with coherent and convincing explanations of complex events”. | |||
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Question 7: Since 2004 the ________ TV show MythBusters has tried to prove or disprove urban legends by attempting to test them or reproduce them using the scientific method. | |||
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Question 8: For this reason, ________ and folklorists prefer the term contemporary legend. | |||
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Question 9: It is the topic of the ________ newsgroup, alt.folklore.urban, and several web sites, most notably snopes.com. | |||
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Question 10: One such example since the seventies has been the recurring rumor that the ________ Company was associated with Satan worshipers because of details within its nineteenth-century trademark. | |||
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