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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What Finnish folklorist, professor and developer of the geographic-historic method of folklore research tried to find original versions by judging which tales were the best and most complete?
(a) Carl Jung.
(b) Theodor Benfey.
(c) E. Stuck.
(d) Kaarle Krohn.

2. Carl Jung is often considered the first modern psychologist to state that the human psyche is "by nature" what?
(a) Religious.
(b) Happy.
(c) Good.
(d) Neurotic.

3. Where does Dummling's feather fly to in "The Three Feathers"?
(a) North.
(b) East.
(c) West.
(d) The floor.

4. What term of analytical psychology, coined by Carl Jung, is proposed to be expressed in humanity and all life forms with nervous systems and describes how the structure of the psyche autonomously organizes experience?
(a) Collective unconscious.
(b) Transcendental unconscious.
(c) Collective conscious.
(d) Transcendental reality.

5. Marie-Louise von Franz bases much of her interpretation of psychology and fairy tales on whose theories?
(a) Hilde Domin's.
(b) Carl Jung's.
(c) Sigmund Freud's.
(d) Bruno Bettelheim's.

6. What term is typically used to refer to polytheistic religious traditions, although from a Christian perspective the term can encompass all non-Abrahamic religions?
(a) Nonsecularism.
(b) Pluralism.
(c) Paganism.
(d) Neopaganism.

7. What is the third thing that the king orders his sons to find in "The Three Feathers"?
(a) A carpet.
(b) A ring.
(c) A beautiful woman.
(d) A goblet.

8. According to Von Franz, when the ego takes over, to the denial of the Self, this leads to what type of behavior?
(a) Psychotic.
(b) Violent.
(c) Depressive.
(d) Neurotic.

9. Where does Dummling find the magical toad in "The Three Feathers"?
(a) In a witch's house.
(b) In the attic.
(c) Behind the secret door.
(d) In an enchanted forest.

10. What is the third thing the toad gives to Dummling in "The Three Feathers"?
(a) A carpet.
(b) A ring.
(c) A crown.
(d) A baby toad.

11. Which writer of antiquity had a "Beauty and the Beast" type story titled, "Amor and Psyche"?
(a) Plautus.
(b) Aurelius.
(c) Aristophanes.
(d) Apuleius.

12. One Egyptian fairy tale is discussed in Chapter 1 which focuses on two brothers, Anup and who?
(a) Musa.
(b) Bata.
(c) Mata.
(d) Biti.

13. Von Franz suggests that one should not be what about a fairy tale interpretation in Chapter 3?
(a) Arrogant.
(b) Logical.
(c) Structured.
(d) Psychological.

14. The author asserts that while the myth bears a specifically _____ character, the fairy tale is free from such constraints.
(a) National.
(b) Cultural.
(c) Universal.
(d) Ethnic.

15. In Von Franz' metaphor for myth and fairy tale, what might local sagas or myth be?
(a) Flesh.
(b) Sand.
(c) Water.
(d) Earth.

Short Answer Questions

1. According to Von Franz's interpretation of "The Three Feathers," the king represents what?

2. According to Von Franz, what figure in a tale represents a restoration of the accord between ego and self?

3. The author asserts in Chapter 2 that archetypal stories originate from individuals who have episodes in which their what bubbles to the surface?

4. Theodor Benfey traced all fairy tales to where?

5. Which individual tried to interestingly link dreams with fairy tales, though he had none of the psychoanalytic or Jungian vocabulary to assist him?

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