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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 2, and Chapter 3.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Fairy tales are referred to as what kind of "system," that is, its meaning is contained in the tale itself, and not elsewhere?
(a) Closed.
(b) Inspired.
(c) Open.
(d) Constrained.

2. The author states that there are those that believe in the theory of the "decayed myth," that is, larger myths "decay" and break down over time, fragmenting into episodes that get retained as what?
(a) Religion.
(b) Folklore.
(c) Myth.
(d) Epic.

3. What term refers to the "ups and downs" of a story?
(a) Middle.
(b) Lysis.
(c) Peripeteia.
(d) Logos.

4. What term refers to an original model of a person, ideal example, or a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned, or emulated?
(a) Archetype.
(b) Stereotype.
(c) Standard.
(d) Overtype.

5. Who wrote The Uses of Enchantment: The Meaning and Importance of Fairy Tales?
(a) Bruno Bettelheim.
(b) Carl Jung.
(c) Johannes Bobrowski.
(d) Wolfgang Borchert.

Short Answer Questions

1. What is the title of the primordial waters of the cosmos, the mother from which the cosmos emerged in Egyptian mythology?

2. What term is synonymous with Carl Jung's central psychological archetype, the unified consciousness and unconsciousness?

3. Mythologies and legends differ from fairy tales because they have many what, according to the author?

4. What is the name of the Native American described in Chapter 2 who, deathly ill, had a vision of a great many horses and a dance of the tribe with those horses?

5. What religion is arose from local saga to mythological status, according to the author in Chapter 2?

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