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This test consists of 5 multiple choice questions, 5 short answer questions, and 10 short essay questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Von Franz believes fairy tales originate as "local ___."
(a) Anecdotes.
(b) Sagas.
(c) Religions.
(d) Myths.

2. 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) Pluralism.
(b) Nonsecularism.
(c) Neopaganism.
(d) Paganism.

3. What individual broke the Greek Hercules mythology down and discovered that the myth was made up of a succession of fairy tales?
(a) A. Kohn.
(b) P. Whillmore.
(c) E. Schywzer.
(d) James Warzenberger.

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) Transcendental reality.
(b) Collective unconscious.
(c) Collective conscious.
(d) Transcendental unconscious.

5. Mythologies and legends differ from fairy tales because they have many what, according to the author?
(a) Story structures.
(b) Character types.
(c) Cultural overlays.
(d) Different outcomes.

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 means to break down into constituent parts; dissect; dismantle?

3. Is it suggested by the author in Chapter 2 that Jesus was the spiritual successor of which Egyptian god?

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

5. According to the author, animals in fairy tales are anthropomorphized aspects of what?

Short Essay Questions

1. What does the king represent in "The Three Feathers" according to von Franz?

2. How do archetypal stories arise, according to the author?

3. What is the opposing position regarding the Christianity/myth theory?

4. What is von Franz's position on psychological interpretation of fairy tales, as discussed in Chapter 1?

5. What is the theory of the "decayed myth"?

6. What are the "functions of consciousness"? How do they apply to interpretation?

7. What is von Franz's position regarding the myth versus fairy tale origin? What analogy is made?

8. What does von Franz write of Dummling's analysis in "The Three Feathers"?

9. What does von Franz write of the significance of the fairy tale in psychological meaning in the Preface and Chapter 1?

10. How does fairy tale differ from myth?

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