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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Louse and the Flea | The Girl Without Hands | Clever Hans | The Three Languages | Clever Elsie | The Tailor in Heaven | The Wishing Table, the Gold-Ass, and the Cudgel in the Sack.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What distracts Little Red Cap when she is going to her grandmother's house?
(a) The wolf's stories.
(b) Musical birds.
(c) Flowers.
(d) Nothing.

2. Why do the kids let the wolf inside in "The Wolf and the Seven Young Kids"?
(a) The wolf pretends to be the grandmother.
(b) The wolf blows the door down.
(c) The wolf says he is selling things for children.
(d) The wolf makes his paw white and pretends to be the mother.

3. What power do the snake leaves have in the story "The Three Snake-Leaves"?
(a) To remove a curse.
(b) To bring someone back from the dead.
(c) To kill someone.
(d) To make someone tell the truth.

4. In "Story of a Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was," how does the boy finally learn about fear?
(a) The large black animals in the haunted house spook him.
(b) The king jumps at him.
(c) The ghost in the haunted house scares him.
(d) His wife throws fish on him.

5. Why does the tailor throw the footstool in "The Tailor in Heaven"?
(a) He threw it in joy when he saw an old woman washing clothes.
(b) He threw it in anger when he saw an old woman washing clothes.
(c) He threw it in anger when he saw an old woman stealing.
(d) he threw it in joy when he saw an old woman stealing.

Short Answer Questions

1. What do the cat and mouse store in the church in the story "The Cat and Mouse in Partnership"?

2. How does the witch in Hansel and Gretel die?

3. What was behind the mill "The Maiden Without Hands" that the devil claimed?

4. Who is inside the house that the animals in "The Bremen Town Musicians" come across?

5. What is the cracking noise heard at the end of "The Frog-King"?

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