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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What negative quality is expressed in "The Wolf and the Fox"?

2. What item does the boy turn to silver in "The Spirit in the Bottle"?

3. What distracts Little Red Cap when she is going to her grandmother's house?

4. What do the rooster and hen do with the needle at the inn in "The Pack of Ragamuffins"?

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

Short Essay Questions

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

2. What lessons are taught in Old Sultan?

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 does Gambling Hansel explain of the world?

5. How is the story of Clever Elsie misleading?

6. What are the similarities between The Queen Bee, The Three Feathers, and The Golden Goose?

7. The idea of good overpowering evil is prevalent in many of the stories. Briefly mention a few and discuss how good triumphs over evil.

8. What is the lesson of The Three Sons of Fortune?

9. What lesson is being told in the story Mother Holle?

10. What are the similarities and differences between The Devil's Sooty Brother and Bearskin?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Research the lives of the Grimm Brothers and their tales and write an informative essay. Give a brief biography and be sure to answer the following questions: How? Why did the Grimm Brothers get their start in telling tales? How did their stories spread? Did the Grimm Brothers base any of the fairy tales off real-life experiences or are they all purely fictional? What was their childhood like? What about their lives as adults?

Essay Topic 2

Prince Charming is not a term used specifically in the fairy tales but the idea of a Prince Charming is found in many of the tales. Discuss what the idea of a fairy tale prince is. Compare and contrast the various prince characters in the different tales. What behavioral codes do these princes tend to follow? What is the modern idea of a prince and is it similar to the idea of a fairy tale prince?

Essay Topic 3

Although the fairy tales do not exactly end with the words "and they lived happily ever after," this is the general concept of the endings of fairy tales. Discuss what Happily Ever After means and how it is expressed in the fairy tales. Are the endings all similar or are there differences? Is every ending happy? If so, who is it happy for? Use specific examples to support your claims.

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