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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. What is the girl turned into in "Frau Trude"?
(a) A block of wood.
(b) Nothing.
(c) A pumpkin.
(d) A mouse.

2. What did Death use to show the length of life a person has left in "Godfather Death"?
(a) A book.
(b) Candles.
(c) Trees and leaves.
(d) Yarn.

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

4. What is something similar in "The Three Little Birds" and "The Water of Life"?
(a) An evil stepmother.
(b) Healing water.
(c) Evil sisters.
(d) A dwarf.

5. What power does the horse posses in "The Raven"?
(a) Ability to unlock doors.
(b) Ability to climb a glass mountain.
(c) Invisibility for itself and its rider.
(d) Super speed.

Short Answer Questions

1. What power do the snake leaves have in the story "The Three Snake-Leaves"?

2. What tricks the sorcerer into believing his bride is in the attic?

3. In "The Fisherman and his Wife," what negative trait caused their downfall?

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

5. In "Our Lady's Child," what does the maiden refuse to do?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does King Thrushbeard trick the princess? Why?

2. What is the lesson in The Pink?

3. The number three is used several times in some of the fairy tales. Give a brief list of which stories that use the number three, what is represented in threes, and what the number three might represent.

4. What lessons are taught in Old Sultan?

5. The Louse and the Flea and Clever Hans both use different story-telling styles than many of the other fairy tales. What techniques do they use?

6. Discuss the differences between the two tales of The Wedding of Mrs. Fox and how each portrays Mr. and Mrs. Fox.

7. What common fairy tale element is shared in The Thief and His Master, Jorinda and Joringel, and How Six Men Got On in the World?

8. What is the moral of The Three Little Birds?

9. Discuss the sibling bond seen in both The Twelve Brothers and Brother and Sister.

10. What is the irony in The Water-Nixie?

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