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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Fox and the Geese | The Poor Man and the Rich Man | The Singing, Soaring Lark | The Goose-Girl | The Young Giant | The Gnome | The King of the Golden Mountain.

Multiple Choice Questions

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

2. What negative quality is expressed in "The Wolf and the Man"?
(a) Greed.
(b) Bragging.
(c) Conceit.
(d) Gluttony.

3. In Brother and Sister, how does the brother turn into a fawn?
(a) He steals enchanted food from the witch.
(b) His sister accidentally pushes him into a bewitched spring.
(c) His stepmother curses him.
(d) He drinks from a bewitched spring.

4. Why does one of the men in How Six Men Got on in the World wear a cap over one ear?
(a) Because he wants to run slower.
(b) Because otherwise a frost will set in.
(c) Because he wants to shoot out the left eye of a fly.
(d) Because he wants to blow air onto the windmills.

5. Which phrase can sum up the idea behind the story of "The Valiant Little Tailor"?
(a) Tat for tit.
(b) Tit for tat.
(c) Brains over brawn.
(d) Brawn before brains.

Short Answer Questions

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

2. Why does the first twin kill the second twin in "The Two Brothers"?

3. In "The Three Little Men in the Woods," what does the stepmother send the maiden out in search of and in what season?

4. In "Gambling Hansel," what does God grant him?

5. How do the lord ravens in "The Seven Ravens" know that their sister is near?

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